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JGit PUSH only Single File [message #1787560]

Tue, 29 May 2018 01:21

Eclipse User

I need to write one Java program which allow me to PUSH/Check-in one single file to the given GIT repository.
For this I am using JGIT libraries.
But by using JGIT I found one issue that it is always tried to clone entire GIT repository to my local file system.
If the GIT repository having huge data somewhere around 2GB then it will create such big repo in my local file system.
This will also create lots of data transfer.

I just wanted to modify and check-in only single file at specific folder location of GIT repository.
I don't want to clone entire repo in my local file system for this.

If I use no checkout option while cloning and then commit and PUSH single file to remote repo then it will PUSH entire working tree to GIT repo and all other existing folders and files get removed from remote repo.
Please let me know if there is any solution by using JGIT library.

Re: JGit PUSH only Single File [message #1789931 is a reply to message #1787560]

Thu, 31 May 2018 17:56

Eclipse User

This is how git works in general. It's a distributed versioning system which means that you first clone the repository.
Native git supports shallow clone which allows to restrict the number of versions you download during clone.
Though this is not yet supported by JGit [1]

[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=475615

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