EGit Github Examples

This repository contains examples how to use the EGit Github client.

Credentials

In order to set credentials used to authenticate with the Github REST API set the following system properties when starting the example:

-Dgithub.test.user=foo
-Dgithub.test.password=secret

Note that the rate limit enforced by Github is higher for authenticated users.

The Commits class demonstrates how to use the CommitService to list commits of a repository.