Git Dependencies Plugin for Gradle

The Git dependencies plugin helps resolving Gradle project dependencies via git using seamless gradle syntax. It relies on Gradle wrapper tasks and Gradle maven plugin being applied to your dependencies.

What's this ?

For each dependency you want to resolve using it sources from a git repository, you can define the Git repository via the git extra property.

The git-dependencies plugin then does the following:

• clone the repository or fetch from upstream into project.gitDependenciesDir, default to "${project.buildDir.path}/git-dependencies"
• checkout branch/tag corresponding to specified version (master if not found)
• ./gradlew install

To be resolved just as other dependencies, this plugin add the mavenLocal repository to your project

Usage

To use the git-dependencies plugin, include in your build script:

apply plugin: 'git-dependencies'

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'org.batcha.gradle.plugins:gradle-plugin-git-dependencies:0.1'
    }
}

If you do not need the gradle --offline (cf http://issues.gradle.org/browse/GRADLE-1768), You can also do

apply from: 'https://raw.github.com/bat-cha/gradle-plugin-git-dependencies/0.1/git-dependencies.gradle'

To declare a Dependency,

dependencies {

  compile('org.batcha:dummy-project-a:4.2').ext.git = 'https://github.com/bat-cha/dummy-java-project-a.git'
    
}

TODO

• Allow git / repo urls (use case: sometimes the package is not available and you need the git repository, but sometimes you can give a hint about where the module is. Otherwise the resolution takes too much time).