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 wiki 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.

Building the Plugin

$ java -version # Requires Java 1.8 $ mvn -version # Requires a modern maven version; maven 3.2.5 and 3.5.0 are known to work $ 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 of the JGit implementation