Eclipse Community Forums: EGit / JGit

Help

Home

Home » Eclipse Projects » EGit / JGit » JGit requires bash?

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator

JGit requires bash? [message #1655379]

Sat, 07 March 2015 03:19

Eclipse Account

Messages: 2
Registered: March 2015

Junior Member

With jgit-3.7.0.201502260915-r the code fails:

Repository repo = FileRepositoryBuilder.create(dir);

Exception is

40 [main] ERROR org.eclipse.jgit.util.FS - Caught exception in FS.readPipe()
java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "bash" (in directory "C:\test"): CreateProcess error=2,
	at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Unknown Source)
	at org.eclipse.jgit.util.FS.readPipe(FS.java:431)
	at org.eclipse.jgit.util.FS_Win32.discoverGitPrefix(FS_Win32.java:113)
	at org.eclipse.jgit.util.FS.gitPrefix(FS.java:517)
	at org.eclipse.jgit.util.SystemReader$Default.openSystemConfig(SystemReader.java:92)
	at org.eclipse.jgit.internal.storage.file.FileRepository.<init>(FileRepository.java:171)
	at org.eclipse.jgit.storage.file.FileRepositoryBuilder.build(FileRepositoryBuilder.java:92)
	at org.eclipse.jgit.storage.file.FileRepositoryBuilder.create(FileRepositoryBuilder.java:110)

Can I use JGit without bash?

Report message to a moderator

Re: JGit requires bash? [message #1681139 is a reply to message #1655379]

Tue, 17 March 2015 07:29

Matthias Sohn

Messages: 1268
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

In FS_Win32.java:113 JGit tries to find native git by running the command "which git" in a bash.
If native git isn't installed or bash or git aren't on the PATH then this command fails. JGit logs
an error to leave a trace that this attempt to find native git failed but will work ok anyway.

JGit tries to find native git in order to locate the system wide git configuration which is located
in a path relative to the native git installation. If it doesn't find a native git installation JGit can't
locate this system wide git configuration and hence will ignore it.

Report message to a moderator