I want to be able to use a version control system. Although Eclipse comes with CVS, I think it's better that I use a distributed version control system, such as GIT. I was pretty much sold after reading this article.

Anyway, I installed EGit and followed this guide on how to set it up. However, I ran in to a few problems:

• Adding .project and .classpath inside .gitignore did not seem to work.
• When I try to open a committed file, it throws an error, saying: "IO error reading Git blob [...]"

What am I doing wrong? If more information is needed, please specify and I will give.