Eclipse's version control system of choice (and indeed, of many sane people's choice) is Git, the canonical distributed version control system for open-source projects. The EGit implementation in Eclipse is bundled by default for almost all of the standard packages, although it doesn't exist in the SDK package. The git command-line client is available for most operating systems and can be downloaded from http://git-scm.com.
It may be necessary to install the Eclipse Git team provider, but most packages of Eclipse come with EGit built in. If not, it can be installed using the Help | Install New Software... menu; select the main Eclipse repository for the release (Neon, Mars, and so on) and search for
git. Install the Eclipse Git Team Provider from the Collaboration group:
Since the
org.eclipse.swtprojects were imported from a source snapshot in the previous section, they need to be deleted...