Utility plugin for Git-related support

Extracted from git-plugin to make it easier for other plugins to use and contribute new features. Includes JGit as a library so that other Jenkins components can rely on JGit whenever the git client plugin is available.

• see Jenkins plugins site for feature descriptions
• use JIRA to report issues / feature requests

Contributing to the Plugin

Refer to contributing to the plugin for suggestions to speed the acceptance of your contributions.

Code coverage reporting is available as a maven target and is actively monitored. Please improve code coverage with the tests you submit. Code coverage reporting is written to target/site/jacoco/ by the maven command:

  $ mvn -P enable-jacoco clean install jacoco:report

Building the Plugin

  $ java -version # Requires Java 1.8
  $ mvn -version # Requires Apache Maven 3.5.0 or later
  $ mvn clean install

To Do

• Evaluate pull requests
• Fix bugs
• Create infrastructure to detect files opened during a unit test and left open at exit from test
• Complete more JGit implementation