Gradle plugin to publish a project into a maven based git repository. The plugin is cloning your git repository into a working directory and then is using the gradle maven plugin's uploadArchives task to publish your archives into the new git repository; this is followed by pushing the new commit to the provided git repository.

Add the following lines to your build to use the git-maven-repo plugin.

buildscript {
  repositories { maven { url "http://epages-de.github.com/maven-repo/releases" } }
  dependencies { classpath 'com.epages.git:git-maven-repo:0.1' }
}

To apply the Github Maven Repo plugin add the following line to your build:

apply plugin: 'git-maven-repo'

This configures tasks needed to clone, add, commit, and push changes to the configured branch of your Github repository.

In order to use it, you have to define the uploadArchives task and then run

gradle publishGitRepo

By default, the commit message is automatically set to project.name-project.version. This can be overwritten on the command line with the property commitMessage.

gradle publishGitRepo -PcommitMessage="Configured commit Message"

###uploadArchives

The uploadArchives task has to configure a repository on the local system to publish to. The repository will be used by the plugin to publish to github.

Example configuration of uploadArchives

uploadArchives {
    repositories {
        mavenDeployer() {
            repository(url: "file:${project.buildDir}/maven-repo/releases)

            pom.project {
                name project.name
                packaging 'jar'
                description project.description
                url 'https://github.com/mircea-pop/git-maven-repo.git'

                licenses {
                    license {
                        name 'The Apache Software License, Version 2.0'
                        url 'http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0'
                    }
                }
                scm {
                    url 'scm:[email protected]:mircea-pop/git-maven-repo.git'
                    connection 'scm:[email protected]:mircea-pop/git-maven-repo.git'
                    developerConnection 'scm:[email protected]:mircea-pop/git-maven-repo.git'
                }

                developers {
                    developer {
                        id 'mircea-pop'
                        name 'Mircea Pop'
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

The plugin is snapshots and releases aware.

The repository and the branch that the releases will be pushed to is configured via the githubRepo extension:

githubRepo {
  gitMavenRepo = 'https://github.com/ePages-de/maven-repo.git'
  gitBranch = 'gh-pages'
}

The gitBranch configuration is optional, default beeing gh-pages

Beyond what is mentioned above, the plugin also provides a file based way to authenticate. If you are using username/password credentials and don't want to re-enter them during each build, you can specify the credentials in the gradle.properties file. As these are sensitive values, they should not be in the project's gradle.properties, but rather in the user's ~/.gradle/gradle.properties.

github.credentials.username = username
github.credentials.password = password