JGit and finding the Head

Question

I\'m trying to get my hands on the HEAD commit with JGit:

val builder = new FileRepositoryBuilder()
val repo = builder.setGitDir(new File(\"/www/test-repo\")         


        

Answer 1

For me (using 4.5.0.201609210915-r) the solution was to use just RepositoryBuilder instead of FileRepositoryBuilder. Until I made this change all methods were returning null.

rb = new org.eclipse.jgit.lib.RepositoryBuilder()
    .readEnvironment()
    .findGitDir()
    .build();

headRef = rb.getRef(rb.getFullBranch());
headHash = headRef.getObjectId().name();