I have a local git repository which has some Python modules and I would like to create a new project which includes these files (I installed egit egit).
My repository does not include a .project file.
It happened to me not so long ago. 
I could not find a nice way to solve it, but found a simple way though :). 
What I did was simple :
Create a brand new project, and let it empty. 
Get the .project file wihch was created together with the project and add it in the git repository.
Now you can directly import your repo as a project. 
Quite straightforward and simple.
How to add an existing git repository (without an eclipse project) into eclipse?