Best way to integrate Git with Ant?

Question

I am looking for the best way to integrate Git with Ant. Is there a widely used Ant task for Git? Does anyone have any experience using Git through Ant (e.g. dedicated task,

Answer 1

Time ago I have unsuccessfully looked for ready in use ways to integrate Git and Ant. I needed possibility to create a build with the name of the Git branch. Finally I came to the following solution:

The excerpt from the real build.xml file:

The whole content of the file ./bin/git-branch-name.sh

#!/bin/bash

# This script is the part of integration GIT to ANT. Once launched it 
# should return the name of the current branch or the current commit (if 
# GIT is the detached HEAD mode). Further the printed name is appended to 
# the name of the resulting directory. To initialize this feature you need 
# to run ANT with the option "-Dusing.git=". 

exec 2>/dev/null

git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD | grep -v HEAD || git rev-parse HEAD

Invocation is similar to:

ant TARGET options -Dusing.git=

When ${using.git} is declared, Ant calls the task -check-git-branch-name to gather the name of a branch (or a commit's number if Git is in detached mode) and generates the build with the appended name of the Git branch (or commit's hnumber), for example build/TARGET-${git-branch-name}.