Re: [JGIT RFC] Mavenized JGit

[Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>]

tisdagen den 3 juni 2008 16.42.33 skrev Imran M Yousuf:
> Hi,
> 
> 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.

-- robin