I am using jgit. I want to create and checkout a new branch. I have seen the git.checkout.createnewbranch command. Is there a way to specify the base branch for the checkout, say “test” (or) we have to checkout,pull “test” first and then checkout/create the new branch from it? Answer Yes, it’s possible: Don’t forget to call git.close() or use try-with-resources
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Get latest tag in branch with JGit
I am trying to get the JGit equivalent of the command I have tried getting all the tags in the project and then finding the greatest tag in the branch via the BranchListCommand, but that is to slow. I am stuck and I cannot find anything that help via my searches. Does anyone have any idea how to do the
Why object from Git.tagList().call() is not a tag?
I’m trying Jgit and I want to retrieve all tags of a cloned repository and I want to sort them by Date. That’s why I’m trying the following: The problem is that some of Ref returned by this.taglist = new Git(repository).tagList().call() are not Tag: in fact an exception is raised by parseTag() and its message is: org.eclipse.jgit.errors.IncorrectObjectTypeException: Object 3ea2b388b5ef02622312fe08e6935a5f9c655e00 is
How to read the file data from GIT Repo. without cloning it in local using JGIT API
I tried to find a way to fetch particular file data from GIT Repo. without cloning that file in local using JGit API but didn’t found anything related to this. Now , I doubt is there any built in function available in JGit API to allow remote server viewing? Please can anyone guide me on this? Edit-1: My GIT repo.
Get the latest commit in a repository with JGit
I want to get the last commit metadata (the youngest one by date) in a repository using JGit. I know that I can get the commit metadata using: But how to get the latest commit hash? Is there any other way to get the youngest by date RevCommit in a repository directly? Answer Compare by dates of last commits in
How to get the file list for a commit with JGit
I have been working on a Java based product for which the Git features are going to be integrated. Using one of the Git features, I have done adding 10+ files into the Git repository by staging followed by committing them in a single commit. Is the reverse of the above process possible? I.e Finding the list of files committed
How to Check if A Git Clone Has Been Done Already with JGit
I learning git and using JGit to access Git repos from java code. Git by default does not allow to clone to a non-empty directory. How do we figure out that a git clone has already been done for a particular git repo in the local machine so that we can only do a Git pull subsequently? Currently I’m using