Re: jgit as a jira plugin

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Oct 29, 2008, 23:08 UTC
Message-ID: <20081029230816.GA31926@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <5915DAE3-7BDF-4296-9DB3-6FBEE504A317@xiplink.com>

"J. Longman" <longman@xiplink.com> wrote:

> I've integrated jgit into a plugin for the Jira Issue tracking system.  
> There is more information here: 
> http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAEXT/Jira+Git+Plugin

Cool!

> 1) I noticed that there is a maven pom file.  Are you present in a maven 
> repository?  Also any problem with embedding a working snapshot in my 
> plugin?

No, we aren't hosted in any repository yet. The pom file exists to make it easier for people who prefer maven to build, but its not the primary build system for jgit.

> 2) I'd like to find out the jgit way to achieve the equivalent of 'svn  
> update'.  I understand that fetch can do this but being new to git, I  
> don't really understand quite what I need yet.  The goal is to have git 
> the latest commits from the origin before indexing.

Use a Transport instance to execute a default fetch (no args) on say the "remote" origin. That will download the objects to the local database, but it won't update a working directory. But I'm not sure you would care about the working directory in the backend of Jira.

> Thanks for jgit - it took me a day or two to wrap my head around getting 
> the list of files changed in a commit but otherwise its great to have 
> something that can be integrated into jira.

Yea, about that, we wanted to write more tutorials on the API...  ;-)

-- 
Shawn.