Java tutorial
package edu.nju.cs.inform.jgit.porcelain; /* Copyright 2013, 2014 Dominik Stadler Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. */ import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; import org.eclipse.jgit.api.Git; import org.eclipse.jgit.api.errors.GitAPIException; import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Repository; import org.eclipse.jgit.storage.file.FileRepositoryBuilder; /** * Simple snippet which shows how to initialize a new repository * * @author dominik.stadler at gmx.at */ public class InitRepository { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, GitAPIException { // run the init-call File dir = File.createTempFile("gitinit", ".test"); if (!dir.delete()) { throw new IOException("Could not delete file " + dir); } // The Git-object has a static method to initialize a new repository try (Git git = Git.init().setDirectory(dir).call()) { System.out.println("Created a new repository at " + git.getRepository().getDirectory()); } dir = File.createTempFile("repoinit", ".test"); if (!dir.delete()) { throw new IOException("Could not delete file " + dir); } // you can also create a Repository-object directly from the try (Repository repository = FileRepositoryBuilder.create(new File(dir.getAbsolutePath(), ".git"))) { System.out.println("Created a new repository at " + repository.getDirectory()); } } }