Re: [JGIT RFC] Mavenized JGit

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jun 3, 2008, 22:54 UTC
Message-ID: <20080603225418.GP12896@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <200806031856.11060.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>

Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> wrote:

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> tisdagen den 3 juni 2008 16.42.33 skrev Imran M Yousuf:
> > I have successfully Mavenized JGit (at least partially :)) to make it
> > independent of IDE to develop on. I will also add a code-file format
> > checker soon. Please have a look at it and let me know what you think
> > and how it can be improved. If its helpful I will surely send out a
> > patch in this regard. The one thing that I did not configure is the
> > external test (exttst), doing that and the code format checker is my
> > next step.
> > The 'jgit-mavenize' branch of my fork of egit contains it.
> > (http://repo.or.cz/w/egit/imyousuf.git?a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/jgit-mavenize).
> 
> An abvious problem is that JGit does not handle symbolic links and those do
> not work well (if at all) under git on windows either. Cygwin will not do here,
> unless you accompany it with a cygwin java build (if such a thing exists). Mingw
> also does not support them.

I'm all for a change that widens the group of applications and users that can use jgit (heck, that's one reason we moved to it to a BSD license). But we really cannot abandon Windows users in that process, so yea, anything that tries to use symlinks is bad.

I don't think there is a Cygwin based version of the JVM. That would be a very interesting beast.

-- 
Shawn.