Clone a git repository to local from Azure devops using java

Question

Used the following piece of code to clone the repo from ADO.

        File file = new File("local_folder_location");
        CredentialsProvider cp = new UsernamePasswordCredentialsProvider("user_id", "password");
        try {
            Git.cloneRepository()
                      .setURI("repo_path")
                      .setCredentialsProvider(cp)
                      .setDirectory(file)
                      .call();
        } catch (GitAPIException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

It is working fine if we try to clone the repo only once. On the second time it will throw an error like:

Exception in thread "main" org.eclipse.jgit.api.errors.JGitInternalException: Destination path "path" already exists and is not an empty directory
    at org.eclipse.jgit.api.CloneCommand.verifyDirectories(CloneCommand.java:253)
    at org.eclipse.jgit.api.CloneCommand.call(CloneCommand.java:189)

Please suggest a solution in which:

If the repository is not there in local, Clone it like above.
If it is already existing, pull the latest changes only.

Also if there's any other solution to this in Java (any other API or something), it would work.

Thanks

Please see this [question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13399990/usage-of-pull-command-in-jgit). You probably want to pull the latest changes using the Git.pull().call() method — Tino M Thomas, Sep 10 '20 at 15:53

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 11 '20 at 02:00

Please check if your folder exists and if then use pull command

Git git = Git.open(new File("/path/to/repo/.git"));

PullCommand pullCommand = git.pull();
    pullCommand.setCredentialsProvider(
      new UsernamePasswordCredentialsProvider("user_id", "password" )
    );

pullCommand.call();

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 11 '20 at 06:48

1

According to git clone command, cloning into an existing directory is only allowed if the directory is empty, so you can not clone the repo second time.

Regarding your 2# request "If it is already existing, pull the latest changes only.", you should use git pull instead of git clone.

answered Sep 11 '20 at 06:48

Cece Dong - MSFT

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Have you checked the replies? Are they helpful? – Cece Dong - MSFT Sep 21 '20 at 09:47

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 14 '20 at 08:00

If you would like to give git24j a try, you can do this:

String urlThatNeedsAuth = "https://github.com/a-private-repo.git";
File localDir = new File("/tmp/localPath");
// libgit2 sets credential through callbacks
Clone.Options opts = Clone.Options.defaultOpts();
opts.getFetchOpts()
    .getCallbacks()
    .setCredAcquireCb(
        (url, usernameFromUrl, allowedTypes) ->
            Credential.userpassPlaintextNew("fake-user", "fake-passwd"));

// pull if local clone exits, clone otherwise
if (localDir.exists()) {
    Repository repo = Repository.open(localDir.getPath());
    Remote.lookup(repo, "origin").fetch(null, opts.getFetchOpts(), null);
} else {
    Clone.cloneRepo(aUrlThatNeedsAuth, localDir.getPath(), opts);
}

Clone a git repository to local from Azure devops using java

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