Importing a Maven project into Eclipse from Git

Question

How can I get the effect of choosing to import from both Maven and Git and have Eclipse properly generate my project?

To get my project into Eclipse I can choose Fi

Answer 1

Instead of constantly generating project metadata via import->maven command, you can generate your project metadata once and the place it in your git repository along with the rest of your source code. After than, using import->git command will import a proper maven-enabled project, assuming you have maven tools installed.

Make sure to place into the source control system all files in project dir that start with '.' such as .classpath and .project along with the entire contents of the .settings directory.

Answer 2

Can't you import it as a git project and then (if you have the m2eclipse installed) right click on the project in the Package Explorer > Maven > Enable Dependency Management?