How to disable EGit temporarily?

When doing things like git repack from the command line, a pack gets locked and can't be removed, thus doubling the repo size. The culprit is most probably EG开发者_运维问答it holding the file open (which is bad in Windows). Exiting Eclipse is the only workaround I know. I've found this article, but there's no such option for EGit. Any other idea?

The "Startup and Shutdown" option is the only way to disable a plugin as mentioned in your link ("Temporarily disable Eclipse plugin") or in "How to disable plugins in eclipse 3.6 Helios ?".

If you were building a plugin, you could then use a different target platform (as in this thread and in the comments of the article "[galileo] Manage Plug-ins in your Eclipse IDE"), but this isn't the case here.