Some improvements to jgit project to be useful as a visual git component

This is how it looks like by now:

        == Java GIT ==

This package is licensed under the BSD.

org.eclipse.jgit/

A pure Java library capable of being run standalone, with no
additional support libraries.  Some JUnit tests are provided
to exercise the library.  The library provides functions to
read and write a GIT formatted repository.

All portions of jgit are covered by the BSD.  Absolutely no GPL,
LGPL or EPL contributions are accepted within this package.

org.eclipse.jgit.test/ Unit tests for org.eclipse.jgit and the same licensing rules.

        == WARNINGS / CAVEATS              ==

• Symbolic links are not supported because java does not support it. Such links could be damaged.

• Only the timestamp of the index is used by jgit check if the index is dirty.

• Don't try the library with a JDK other than 1.6 (Java 6) unless you are prepared to investigate problems yourself. JDK 1.5.0_11 and later Java 5 versions may work. Earlier versions do not. JDK 1.4 is not supported. Apple's Java 1.5.0_07 is reported to work acceptably. We have no information about other vendors. Please report your findings if you try.

• CRLF conversion is never performed. On Windows you should thereforc make sure your projects and workspaces are configured to save files with Unix (LF) line endings.

        == Package Features                ==
  

  org.eclipse.jgit/

  • Read loose and packed commits, trees, blobs, including deltafied objects.

  • Read objects from shared repositories

  • Write loose commits, trees, blobs.

  • Write blobs from local files or Java InputStreams.

  • Read blobs as Java InputStreams.

  • Copy trees to local directory, or local directory to a tree.

  • Lazily loads objects as necessary.

  • Read and write .git/config files.

  • Create a new repository.

  • Read and write refs, including walking through symrefs.

  • Read, update and write the Git index.

  • Checkout in dirty working directory if trivial.

  • Walk the history from a given set of commits looking for commits introducing changes in files under a specified path.

  • Object transport Fetch via ssh, git, http, Amazon S3 and bundles. Push via ssh, git and Amazon S3. JGit does not yet deltify the pushed packs so they may be a lot larger than C Git packs.

  org.eclipse.jgit.pgm/

  • Assorted set of command line utilities. Mostly for ad-hoc testing of jgit log, glog, fetch etc.

      == Missing Features                ==
    

There are a lot of missing features. You need the real Git for this. For some operations it may just be the preferred solution also. There are not just a command line, there is e.g. git-gui that makes committing partial files simple.

• Merging.

• Repacking.

• Generate a GIT format patch.

• Apply a GIT format patch.

• Documentation. :-)

• gitattributes support In particular CRLF conversion is not implemented. Files are treated as byte sequences.

• submodule support Submodules are not supported or even recognized.

        == Support                         ==
  

  Post question, comments or patches to the [email protected] mailing list.

        == Contributing                    ==
  

  See SUBMITTING_PATCHES in this directory. However, feedback and bug reports are also contributions.

        == About GIT                       ==
  

More information about GIT, its repository format, and the canonical C based implementation can be obtained from the GIT websites:

http://git.or.cz/ http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/