Update
NetBeans 7.0 now has built-in Git support at some level of functionality. It is available in the Portal Plugin Update Center (Tools | Plugins, then "Available Plugins").
See the NetBeans Git Integration Plan for supported features and a development roadmap.
There is a Git plugin for NetBeans called NBGit . Please note that it is self-described as experimental. The NBGit.org website has links to its Google Code project , and it seems that the actual source code has gone to the GitHub project if you are looking for the edge of the bleeding. Recently, project development activities seem subtle and sporadic.
I used NBGit a few months ago and found it to be an honest start, but not a complete set, sufficient for my daily work. As mentioned in a previously asked question , there are several basic commands that are missing, you need to go to the command line or dedicated GUI.
It looks like NetBeans version 7.0 may contain some level of native support for Git . Please note, however, that the planning document 7.0 (the first link in this paragraph) says "GIT support in early access, only AU (preview)", which may mean that 7.0 will contain only a basic implementation such as NBGit, and that we may have to wait for 7.1 ++ for full-featured support.
Please note that there is nothing special about working with Git repositories on GitHub . GitHub just hosts repositories. Any proper Git client can have access to the repositories hosted there.
(GitHub, on the other hand, has its own GitHub API for accessing features specific to their website / web application. That would be something different from working with repositories via the IDE, though.)
RobertB
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