Java tutorial
package com.buildautomation.jgit.api; /* Copyright 2013, 2014 Dominik Stadler Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. */ import java.io.IOException; import java.util.List; import org.eclipse.jgit.api.Git; import org.eclipse.jgit.api.errors.GitAPIException; import org.eclipse.jgit.diff.DiffEntry; import org.eclipse.jgit.diff.DiffFormatter; import org.eclipse.jgit.errors.IncorrectObjectTypeException; import org.eclipse.jgit.errors.MissingObjectException; import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.ObjectId; import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.ObjectReader; import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Repository; import org.eclipse.jgit.revwalk.RevCommit; import org.eclipse.jgit.revwalk.RevTree; import org.eclipse.jgit.revwalk.RevWalk; import org.eclipse.jgit.treewalk.AbstractTreeIterator; import org.eclipse.jgit.treewalk.CanonicalTreeParser; import org.eclipse.jgit.treewalk.filter.PathFilter; /** * Simple snippet which shows how to show diffs between branches * * @author dominik.stadler at gmx.at */ public class ShowFileDiff { public static void showFileDiff() throws IOException, GitAPIException { try (Repository repository = CookbookHelper.openJGitCookbookRepository()) { // the diff works on TreeIterators, we prepare two for the two branches AbstractTreeIterator oldTreeParser = prepareTreeParser(repository, "09c65401f3730eb3e619c33bf31e2376fb393727"); AbstractTreeIterator newTreeParser = prepareTreeParser(repository, "aa31703b65774e4a06010824601e56375a70078c"); // then the procelain diff-command returns a list of diff entries try (Git git = new Git(repository)) { List<DiffEntry> diff = git.diff().setOldTree(oldTreeParser).setNewTree(newTreeParser) .setPathFilter(PathFilter.create("README.md")).call(); for (DiffEntry entry : diff) { System.out.println( "Entry: " + entry + ", from: " + entry.getOldId() + ", to: " + entry.getNewId()); try (DiffFormatter formatter = new DiffFormatter(System.out)) { formatter.setRepository(repository); formatter.format(entry); } } } } } private static AbstractTreeIterator prepareTreeParser(Repository repository, String objectId) throws IOException, MissingObjectException, IncorrectObjectTypeException { // from the commit we can build the tree which allows us to construct the TreeParser try (RevWalk walk = new RevWalk(repository)) { RevCommit commit = walk.parseCommit(ObjectId.fromString(objectId)); RevTree tree = walk.parseTree(commit.getTree().getId()); CanonicalTreeParser oldTreeParser = new CanonicalTreeParser(); try (ObjectReader oldReader = repository.newObjectReader()) { oldTreeParser.reset(oldReader, tree.getId()); } walk.dispose(); return oldTreeParser; } } }