JGit: How to get all commits of a branch? (Without changes to the working directory …)

Question

how do I get all commits of a branch with JGit, without changing the working directory?

Unfortunately the JGit docs are not very good ...

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Answer 1

You are right, the docs should really be better.

You could use the JGit Log command or use a library like gitective which makes iterating over commits easy. You can look at the source to learn more about JGit.

Other (more complicated) ways are described in this SO-question.