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Creating and applying a patch for an Eclipse project with Git, part 2 : using github

In a recent post, I described how to contribute a patch to an eclipse project using git as its version control system.

Patches are OK, but you lack all the social aspect that is enabled with git and its tooling (be it pure git + gerrit or github with the comments on commits and pull [...]

Creating and applying a patch for an Eclipse project with Git

Since its move to git, contributing to the Eclipse foundation projects is a bit different.

Nothing terrible actually, let’s take the example of a contribution to the p2 project (part of the equinox umbrella at the Eclipse foundation)

Checkout the project git clone http://git.eclipse.org/gitroot/equinox/rt.equinox.p2.git do the changes and then commit them to your local repo [...]