Mark Mikofski

Hi Muthu, Thanks for the comment. I have added a function, lowercase "jgit.m" one level up and in the same namespace as @JGit so you should be able to just use the command interface that you describe if you put the toplevel (JGit4MATLAB) on your path.

EG: if JGit4MATLAB is on your path, and this is your file structure:

JGit4MATLAB/
\__jgit.m
..\__@JGit/
...\__JGit.m
....\__status.m
.....\__etc. (other methods in class "@" folder)

then you should be able to call the functions without strings as in your examples:

>> jgit status
# On branch master
nothing to commit, working directory clean

>> jgit branch list
gitCheckout
* master

>> jgit checkout gitCheckout

>> jgit status
# On branch gitCheckout
# Untracked files:
# (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
#
# jgit.misc
#
# no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

Is this what you are talking about? If not let me know, and thanks again for your feedback!

BTW: the @folder issue was resolved in the 2013-05-28 update.

FYI:
All commands that deal with remotes and that require authentication, EG: CLONE, FETCH, PULL, PUSH, will *only* work
* with SSH
* with *no* passphrase
* with keys in the openSSH format
* with keys and known hosts in $HOME\.ssh

Obviously remotes that do not require authentication will work fine. EG: public, read-only and local repositories.

SSH is very easy to set up.
1. Download puttygen (Intel x86) from this site:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
Disregard the "Intel x86" business, it doesn't matter what processor you have or whether your os is 64-bit or 32-bit. Puttygen is a very mature well establish application that is used by many other applications, for example all of the TortoiseXXX scm clients use Putty, Plink and Pageant
This is the actual download here: (click to download then click to install)
http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/puttygen.exe
2. create a folder called .ssh in your %USERPROFILE%. On Windows 7 this is
C:\Users\<your account name>
and on xp it is
C:\Documents and Settings\<your account name>
You can do this in matlab.
>> mkdir(fullfile(getenv('userprofile'), '.ssh'))
3. create a key using puttygen, this is fairly self explantory, and kind of fun, but do *not* set a passphrase; leave those fields blank!
4. using puttygen, find the conversion menu tab and export the key in the openSSH format to the .ssh folder you created earlier.
5. now copy and paste your public key to your remote repositories (Github, Bitbucket, etc.) as needed. Jsch, which is the ssh client that JGit uses should now work out of the box.

Unfortunately using https isn't possible with JGit4MATLAB. Sorry. but hopefully you'll love the excitement of using ssh key pairs!

download the latest JGit 3.0.0.201306101825-r by using<br/>
>> JGit.downloadJGitJar('path\to\JGIT4MATLAB\@JGit\org.eclipse.jgit.jar')
<br/>
e.g.:<br/>
>> JGit.downloadJGitJar('@JGit\org.eclipse.jgit.jar')
<br/>
Version: 3.0.0.201306101825
<br/>
then restart matlab

MATLAB has nice feature of supporting both command and functional interface.
i.e. >> disp('hello-world')
%works as well as,
>> disp hello-world

You may want to improve the command interface to JGIT, since most of the arguments are strings, we don't need to call it explicitly that way.

FYI:
All commands that deal with remotes and that require authentication, EG: CLONE, FETCH, PULL, PUSH, will *only* work
* with SSH
* with *no* passphrase
* with keys in the openSSH format
* with keys and known hosts in $HOME\.ssh

Obviously remotes that do not require authentication will work fine. EG: public, read-only and local repositories.

SSH is very easy to set up.
1. Download puttygen (Intel x86) from this site:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
Disregard the "Intel x86" business, it doesn't matter what processor you have or whether your os is 64-bit or 32-bit. Puttygen is a very mature well establish application that is used by many other applications, for example all of the TortoiseXXX scm clients use Putty, Plink and Pageant
This is the actual download here: (click to download then click to install)
http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/puttygen.exe
2. create a folder called .ssh in your %USERPROFILE%. On Windows 7 this is
C:\Users\<your account name>
and on xp it is
C:\Documents and Settings\<your account name>
You can do this in matlab.
>> mkdir(fullfile(getenv('userprofile'), '.ssh'))
3. create a key using puttygen, this is fairly self explantory, and kind of fun, but do *not* set a passphrase; leave those fields blank!
4. using puttygen, find the conversion menu tab and export the key in the openSSH format to the .ssh folder you created earlier.
5. now copy and paste your public key to your remote repositories (Github, Bitbucket, etc.) as needed. Jsch, which is the ssh client that JGit uses should now work out of the box.

Unfortunately using https isn't possible with JGit4MATLAB. Sorry. but hopefully you'll love the excitement of using ssh key pairs!