GitAsMaven

Gradle script to use Git as a private Maven repository.

Currently only BitBucket is supported, as the offer free private repositories. GitHub support easily be added in a similar script.

Please find more details in this blogpost and a full example in this repository.

Prerequisites

BitBucket repository with a releases as its main branch, as described in this blogpost.

Usage

1. Add the following plugin to the top of the build.gradle file in your library folder

   apply from: 'https://github.com/QAutomatron/GitAsMaven/blob/master/publish-bitbucket.gradle'

2. Create a gradle.properties file within your library folder with the following parameters:

ARTIFACT_VERSION=<version_here>
ARTIFACT_NAME=<libraryname_here>
ARTIFACT_PACKAGE=<packagename_here>
ARTIFACT_PACKAGING=jar
BITBUCKET_CONSUMER=<oauth_key>
BITBUCKET_SECRET=<oauth_secret>

COMPANY=<bitbucket_team/company_here> //Simply your username if you're not part of a team
REPOSITORY_NAME=<bitbucket_reponame_here>

3. Create a gradle.properties file in the root of your project (or better in the global .gradle folder on your system) with the following parameters

USERNAME=<username>
PASSWORD=<password or application key>

Note: Do not check this file into version control!

4. Run the following command to upload a version to your Maven repository.

./gradlew uploadArchives