# Re: Newbie questions regarding jgit

1 messages from 2008-11-12 to 2008-11-12. Participants: Robin Rosenberg.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/16295

## Robin Rosenberg, 2008-11-12 22:36

Subject: Re: Newbie questions regarding jgit
Message-ID: <200811122336.55408.robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200811122336.55408.robin.rosenberg%40dewire.com

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tisdag 11 november 2008 22:12:58 skrev Farrukh Najmi:
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> I should clarify that I am not using eclipse nor am I using any GUI. My 
> objective is to have Java API access to git from within a servlet using 
> jgit. At present, all I have to go on is javadoc and its not clear where 
> to begin if I simply wish to create, read and update files in a git repo 
> from within the servlet java code.
>
We do not have a tutorial. The JUnit tests are the best examples on 
how to use the API today. I did some experiement wit J2EE and created
some jsp tags, but that's for JSP only and mostly experimental. To
comply with the JEE spec one should create a resource manager for
Git to deal with scalability when many users try to access repos.

> > I am git newbie and looking to use jgit in a servlet endpoint.
> >
> > Where can I find a public maven repo for gjit? It seems there is one 
> > somewhere because of the following file in src tree:
> >
> > jgit-maven/jgit/pom.xml

We do not use maven ourselves right now, though that might change, so
there is not public maven repository for jgit just yet. What do I need to
do to set it up?

> >
> > For now I have built the jar using /make_jgit.sh and installed the pom 
> > manually using m
> >
> > mvn install:install-file -DpomFile=jgit-maven/jgit/pom.xml 
> > -Dfile=jgit.jar

The pom.xml works for building jgit. cd to the mave dir and type mvn
and watch it build (and run unit tests if you ask it to).

-- robin

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