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Silent error when cloning repo [message #1835828]

Mon, 14 December 2020 13:30

John Tipper

Messages: 2
Registered: April 2019

Junior Member

I am trying to clone a repo from GitHub using JGit, then check whether the clone worked successfully:

Path pathToRepo = ...

Git git = Git.cloneRepository()
             .setURI("https://github.com/owner/repo.git")
             .setDirectory(pathToRepo.toFile())
             .setCredentialsProvider(new UsernamePasswordCredentialsProvider("user", "token")
             .call();

System.out.println("is git: " + RepositoryCache.FileKey.isGitRepository(pathToRepo.toFile(), FS.DETECTED));

There are no errors logged, but I get "is git: false" in the output. When I go to pathToRepo in a shell, I can see a single file:

.git/objects/pack/pack-136db98fb0e2758151fd49441f989c1577b484d9.pack.

That file is large (~280MB) but there is nothing else under pathToRepo.

When I cd to pathToRepo and run "git status", I get "fatal: not a git repository".

I can successfully clone the repo from the command line using the https URL and the associated token and get a fully populated git checkout. Something is causing the clone to fail silently. Any ideas on what is going wrong here please?

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Re: Silent error when cloning repo [message #1835830 is a reply to message #1835828]

Mon, 14 December 2020 13:58

Christian Halstrick

Messages: 274
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

You could try to set a ProgressMonitor to see what is happening. Like in:

  Git.cloneRepository()
             .setURI("https://github.com/owner/repo.git")
             .setDirectory(pathToRepo.toFile())
             .setCredentialsProvider(new UsernamePasswordCredentialsProvider("user", "token")

             .setProgressMonitor(new TextProgressMonitor())

             .call();

Ciao
Chris

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