title: What Version of Git is used by EGit in Eclipse?
body: <p>You'd think this would be an easy question, but since Git is, of course, itself a "Version Control" system Google gets very confused by a query like the title of this post.</p>
  
  <p>Be that as it may, I'm running Eclipse Luna and trying to understand what version of Git is being used by the Eclipse EGit plugin.  </p>
  
  <p>This is so that I can understand what is going on with <code>.gitignore</code> files. </p>
  
  <p>It seems that the <a href="https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore" rel="nofollow">documentation on gitignore provided at the official site</a> is not in synch with the git provider in Eclipse, particularly in regard to the handling of leading and trailing <code>**</code> notations. </p>
  
  <p>I know that the version of git that ships with RHEL 6.7 (git v. 1.7.1) does not handle <code>**</code> as per the documentation, and that this was only remedied in 1.8.2, but now I'm also noticing that Eclipse doesn't seem to recognize the <code>**</code> either.  </p>
  
  <p>Does anyone know the answer to this?</p>