I have a gradle build script and want to write a task to checkout a remote git repository. What will be the plugin and the task used to do it?

Question

Trying to write a gradle git checkout task. Don't know which plugin is used for git in gradle and how to write the checkout task.

Answer 1

You could use a project.tasks.create directive, as in this answer, although I would now use git switch instead of checkout.

Or you can use grgit/grgit-gradle, which uses GrGit (and that includes checkout)