PullRemoteRepository.java

package org.dstadler.jgit.unfinished;

/*
   Copyright 2013, 2014 Dominik Stadler

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import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
import org.eclipse.jgit.api.Git;
import org.eclipse.jgit.api.PullResult;
import org.eclipse.jgit.api.errors.GitAPIException;
import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Constants;
import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Repository;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;



/**
 * Note: This snippet is not done and likely does not show anything useful yet
 *
 * Simple snippet which shows how to pull from a remote repository from a remote source
 *
 * @author dominik.stadler at gmx.at
 */
public class PullRemoteRepository {

    private static final String REMOTE_URL = "https://github.com/github/testrepo.git";

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, GitAPIException {
        final File localPath;
        try (Repository repository = cloneRepository()) {
            localPath = repository.getWorkTree();

            System.out.println("Having repository: " + repository.getDirectory() + " with head: " +
                    repository.findRef(Constants.HEAD) + "/" + repository.resolve("HEAD") + "/" +
                    repository.resolve("refs/heads/master"));

            // TODO: why do we get null here for HEAD?!? See also
    // http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17979660/jgit-pull-noheadexception

            try (Git git = new Git(repository)) {
                PullResult call = git.pull().call();

                System.out.println("Pulled from the remote repository: " + call);
            }
        }

        // clean up here to not keep using more and more disk-space for these samples
        FileUtils.deleteDirectory(localPath);
    }

    private static Repository cloneRepository() throws IOException, GitAPIException {
        // prepare a new folder for the cloned repository
        File localPath = File.createTempFile("TestGitRepository", "");
        if(!localPath.delete()) {
            throw new IOException("Could not delete temporary file " + localPath);
        }

        // then clone
        System.out.println("Cloning from " + REMOTE_URL + " to " + localPath);
        try (Git result = Git.cloneRepository()
                .setURI(REMOTE_URL)
                .setDirectory(localPath)
                .call()) {
            // Note: the call() returns an opened repository already which needs to be closed to avoid file handle leaks!
            return result.getRepository();
        }
    }
}