How to “cat” a file in JGit?

Question

A while back I was looking for an embeddable distributed version control system in Java, and I think I have found it in JGit, which is a pure Java implementation of git. How

Answer 1

I followed @Thilo's and @morisil's answer to get this, compatible with JGit 1.2.0:

File repoDir = new File("test-git/.git");
// open the repository
Repository repo = new Repository(repoDir);
// find the HEAD
Commit head = repo.mapCommit(Constants.HEAD);
// retrieve the tree in HEAD
Tree tree = head.getTree();

// 1.2.0 api version here
// find a file (as a TreeEntry, which contains the blob object id)
TreeWalk treewalk = TreeWalk.forPath(repo, "b/test.txt", tree);
// use the blob id to read the file's data
byte[] data = repo.open(treewalk.getObjectId(0)).getBytes();

I didn't test the Java version but it should work. It translates from

(.getBytes (.open repo (.getObjectId (TreeWalk/forPath repo "b/test.txt" tree) 0)))

in clojure (following the same setup as the top section), which does work.