Re: Any overview available on jgit codebase?

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Nov 15, 2008, 23:15 UTC
Message-ID: <20081115231537.GD2932@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <491F2F5E.20206@wellfleetsoftware.com>

Farrukh Najmi <farrukh@wellfleetsoftware.com> wrote:

>
> At minimum could anyone tell me what packages and classes to look at in  
> order to make changes to jgit so it uses a database instead of  
> filesystem to references.

See RefDatabase, created by Repository. You would want to replace RefDatabase with your own implementation, which means abstracting that class to be an abstract base class or an interface.

RefUpdate and RefLogWriter are connected to RefDatabase, so you would likely need to modify those too in order to make the change, especially since RefUpdate is the "INSERT OR UPDATE OR DELETE" logic. :)

BTW, I want to do that RefDatabase abstraction anyway, because I'd like to get an in-memory only version of RefDatabase, to make unit testing easier. So abstracting this code may be useful beyond just your desire to back Git with a JDBC-style database.

-- 
Shawn.