How to retrieve the git commit hash (or description) of a directory with Java

Asked Mar 31 '16 at 14:36

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I would like a method that retrieves the git commit description (or commit hash --I'm not picky!) for a specified codebase. Something along the lines of:

public static retrieveGitDescription(File repositoryDirectory) {
    // magic!
}

The closest thing I could fine is this SO post about Injecting current git commit id into Java webapp, however I want to fetch the information at runtime.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:45

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asked Mar 31 '16 at 14:36

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Use shell commands or http://eclipse.org/jgit/ or https://github.com/kevinsawicki/gitective, many post on SO about JGit – Tokazio Mar 31 '16 at 14:42
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Embedding-Git-in-your-Applications-JGit – Alex Salauyou Mar 31 '16 at 14:42

How to retrieve the git commit hash (or description) of a directory with Java

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