gradle empty project initialization on git

1. Create an empty project on git
2. clone the project to local

git clone projecturl

3. Set the git username and email address on the command line

git config  user.name "yourusername"
git config  user.email "youremail"

4. Initialize the gradle project

gradle init

5. Create a Java folder
   a. Add the following configuration in build.gradle

apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'eclipse'
task initFolder << {
sourceSets*.java.srcDirs*.each { it.mkdirs() }
sourceSets*.resources.srcDirs*.each { it.mkdirs()}
} 

b. Then execute the gradle task

gradle initFolder

6. Convert to eclipse project with gradle task

gradle eclipse

7. set gitignore

/bin/
/build/
/.*
!.gitignore

8. Set as gradle project in eclipse