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By default cloning a Git repo and then importing it as an a Java or Maven project does not show it as _ "shared"_, meaning that the Eclipse project looks disconnected from your local Git repo. If you're used to work with SVN you might find this baffling, as you're accostumed to checkout a project from the central scm repository and see it connected to it, so that changes to your local copy are visually decorated by a special label or icon. In order to save you some clicks to achieve the same with Git you need to check the following option under Eclipse -> Preferences -> Team -> Git -> Projects

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