Re: [JGIT RFC] Mavenized JGit

Robin Rosenberg [off-list ref] wrote:

tisdagen den 3 juni 2008 16.42.33 skrev Imran M Yousuf:

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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.