public static String getRelativePath(IPath filePath, IPath pathToGitRoot) { StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); String file = null; if (!filePath.hasTrailingSeparator()) { file = filePath.lastSegment(); filePath = filePath.removeLastSegments(1); } for (int i = 0; i < pathToGitRoot.segments().length; i++) { if (pathToGitRoot.segments()[i].equals("..")) sb.append( filePath.segment(filePath.segments().length - pathToGitRoot.segments().length + i)) .append("/"); // else TODO } if (file != null) sb.append(file); return sb.toString(); }