Git Dependencies Plugin for Gradle

The Git dependencies plugin helps resolving Gradle project dependencies via git using seamless gradle syntax. It relies on Gradle multi-project build capabilities. The purpose of this plugin is to setup a multi-project Gradle environment ONLY when a dependency cannot be resolved via the classical maven or ivy Gradle Dependency Resolution.

What's this ?

If you sometime need to convert some external module dependency to project dependency then this plugin is for you ! Just specify your git repo where the plugin can find your dependency.

The git-dependencies plugin adds 3 tasks to your project:

• initGitDependencies
• resolveGitDependencies
• refreshGitDependencies

initGitDependencies task

This task will look for dependency that cannot be resolved but have a git extra property. It will clone them into project.gitDependenciesDir, default to "${projectDir.parent}/${project.name}-git-dependencies" and prepare your environment for a multi-project build by adding '''settings.gradle''' in "${projectDir.parent}

resolveGitDependencies task

This task will always be called after your project evaluation, it is simply replacing any unresolved git dependencies by a project dependency using the cloned repositories.

refreshGitDependencies task

This task simply refresh all cloned repository

Usage

To use the git-dependencies plugin, include in your build script:

apply plugin: 'git-dependencies'

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'org.batcha.gradle.plugins:git-dependencies:0.2'
    }
}

If you do not need the gradle --offline (cf http://issues.gradle.org/browse/GRADLE-1768), You can also do

apply from: 'https://raw.github.com/bat-cha/gradle-plugin-git-dependencies/0.2/git-dependencies.gradle'

To declare a Dependency,

dependencies {

  compile('org.batcha:dummy-project-a:4.2').ext.git = 'https://github.com/bat-cha/dummy-java-project-a.git'
    
}

or if you want to use a different version from the unresolved dependency

dependencies {

  compile('org.anic:myproject:42.0') {
    ext.git = 'git@github.com:fabzo/gradle-plugin-git-dependencies.git'
    ext.gitVersion = 'some/otherBranch/h2g2'
  }
    
}

To setup the multi-project build for all the non resolved dependencies having a git property,

./gradlew initGitDependencies

To refresh git repositories for the non resolved dependencies having a git property,

./gradlew refreshGitDependencies

API Doc

• Groovydoc