jgit on bare repo

JGitUtil.java

    public static void delete(final Git git, final String branchName, final String path,
            final String name, final String email, final String message, final TimeZone timeZone, final Date when) {
        commit(git, branchName, path, null, name, email, message, timeZone, when);
    }

    public static void commit(final Git git, final String branchName, final String path, final File file,
            final String name, final String email, final String message, final TimeZone timeZone, final Date when) {

        final String gitPath = fixPath(path);

        final PersonIdent author = buildPersonIdent(git, name, email, timeZone, when);

        try {
            final ObjectInserter odi = git.getRepository().newObjectInserter();
            try {
                // Create the in-memory index of the new/updated issue.
                final ObjectId headId = git.getRepository().resolve(branchName + "^{commit}");
                final DirCache index = createTemporaryIndex(git, headId, gitPath, file);
                final ObjectId indexTreeId = index.writeTree(odi);

                // Create a commit object
                final CommitBuilder commit = new CommitBuilder();
                commit.setAuthor(author);
                commit.setCommitter(author);
                commit.setEncoding(Constants.CHARACTER_ENCODING);
                commit.setMessage(message);
                //headId can be null if the repository has no commit yet
                if (headId != null) {
                    commit.setParentId(headId);
                }
                commit.setTreeId(indexTreeId);

                // Insert the commit into the repository
                final ObjectId commitId = odi.insert(commit);
                odi.flush();

                final RevWalk revWalk = new RevWalk(git.getRepository());
                try {
                    final RevCommit revCommit = revWalk.parseCommit(commitId);
                    final RefUpdate ru = git.getRepository().updateRef("refs/heads/" + branchName);
                    if (headId == null) {
                        ru.setExpectedOldObjectId(ObjectId.zeroId());
                    } else {
                        ru.setExpectedOldObjectId(headId);
                    }
                    ru.setNewObjectId(commitId);
                    ru.setRefLogMessage("commit: " + revCommit.getShortMessage(), false);
                    final RefUpdate.Result rc = ru.forceUpdate();
                    switch (rc) {
                        case NEW:
                        case FORCED:
                        case FAST_FORWARD:
                            break;
                        case REJECTED:
                        case LOCK_FAILURE:
                            throw new ConcurrentRefUpdateException(JGitText.get().couldNotLockHEAD, ru.getRef(), rc);
                        default:
                            throw new JGitInternalException(MessageFormat.format(JGitText.get().updatingRefFailed, Constants.HEAD, commitId.toString(), rc));
                    }

                } finally {
                    revWalk.release();
                }
            } finally {
                odi.release();
            }
        } catch (final Throwable t) {
            throw new RuntimeException(t);
        }
    }

    private static PersonIdent buildPersonIdent(final Git git, final String name, final String email,
            final TimeZone timeZone, final Date when) {
        final TimeZone tz = timeZone == null ? TimeZone.getDefault() : timeZone;

        if (name != null) {
            if (when != null) {
                return new PersonIdent(name, email, when, tz);
            } else {
                return new PersonIdent(name, email);
            }
        }
        return new PersonIdent(git.getRepository());
    }

    /**
     * Creates an in-memory index of the issue change.
     */
    private static DirCache createTemporaryIndex(final Git git, final ObjectId headId, final String path, final File file) {

        final DirCache inCoreIndex = DirCache.newInCore();
        final DirCacheBuilder dcBuilder = inCoreIndex.builder();
        final ObjectInserter inserter = git.getRepository().newObjectInserter();

        try {
            if (file != null) {
                final DirCacheEntry dcEntry = new DirCacheEntry(path);
                dcEntry.setLength(file.length());
                dcEntry.setLastModified(file.lastModified());
                dcEntry.setFileMode(FileMode.REGULAR_FILE);

                final InputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(file);
                try {
                    dcEntry.setObjectId(inserter.insert(Constants.OBJ_BLOB, file.length(), inputStream));
                } finally {
                    inputStream.close();
                }

                dcBuilder.add(dcEntry);
            }

            if (headId != null) {
                final TreeWalk treeWalk = new TreeWalk(git.getRepository());
                final int hIdx = treeWalk.addTree(new RevWalk(git.getRepository()).parseTree(headId));
                treeWalk.setRecursive(true);

                while (treeWalk.next()) {
                    final String walkPath = treeWalk.getPathString();
                    final CanonicalTreeParser hTree = treeWalk.getTree(hIdx, CanonicalTreeParser.class);

                    if (!walkPath.equals(path)) {
                        // add entries from HEAD for all other paths
                        // create a new DirCacheEntry with data retrieved from HEAD
                        final DirCacheEntry dcEntry = new DirCacheEntry(walkPath);
                        dcEntry.setObjectId(hTree.getEntryObjectId());
                        dcEntry.setFileMode(hTree.getEntryFileMode());

                        // add to temporary in-core index
                        dcBuilder.add(dcEntry);
                    }
                }
                treeWalk.release();
            }

            dcBuilder.finish();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        } finally {
            inserter.release();
        }

        if (file == null) {
            final DirCacheEditor editor = inCoreIndex.editor();
            editor.add(new DirCacheEditor.DeleteTree(path));
            editor.finish();
        }

        return inCoreIndex;
    }

Hello @porcelli, I would be interested by an answer to @mattsheppard's question as well :)

@porcelli - I know this is quite old, but any chance you remember what fixPath(path) on line 9 was supposed to have done?

I think it's doing simple path canonicaliz
ation. (for UNIX paths that use forward slash for its path separator)

hey?, this is old ;)

here you can get the latest https://github.com/AppFormer/uberfire/blob/1.4.x/uberfire-nio2-backport/uberfire-nio2-impls/uberfire-nio2-jgit/src/main/java/org/uberfire/java/nio/fs/jgit/util/JGitUtil.java

and maybe this is also of your interest coming directly into jgit: https://git.eclipse.org/r/c/jgit/jgit/+/156039