In this how-to it is being explained how to create a maven repository on github and how to use an existing one.
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Clone your original project to a new local repository (change GROUP-NAME and PROJECT-NAME)
git clone https://github.com/GROUP-NAME/PROJECT-NAME.git PROJECT-NAME-maven2 -
Go to the clonned repository (use your PROJECT-NAME-maven2)
cd PROJECT-NAME-maven2 -
Create a branch for maven files
git branch maven2 -
Switch to this new branch
git checkout maven2 -
Remove project original files, this branch is just for releases
rm -R ALL-PROJECT-SUB-FOLDERSrm ALL-PROJECT-FILES -
run mvn install for jar creation (change GROUP, ARTIFACT-NAME, ARTIFACT-VERSION, PATH-TO-THE-JAR and PATH-TO-EXISTING-POM). See *1 for details.
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=GROUP -DartifactId=ARTIFACT-NAME -Dversion=ARTIFACT-VERSION -Dfile=PATH-TO-THE-JAR -Dpackaging=jar -DlocalRepositoryPath=. -DcreateChecksum=true -DgeneratePom=true -
Add all files to be commited
git add . -
Commit these changes
git commit -m "Released version ARTIFACT-VERSION" -
Push this commit. After that your maven structure for you project can be reached by github raw data address https://github.com/GROUP-NAME/PROJECT-NAME/raw/maven2
git push origin maven2 -
On gradle you can add this repository on 'repositories'
maven { url "https://github.com/ORGANIZATION-NAME/PROJECT-NAME/raw/maven2" }
- *1 Your PATH-TO-THE-JAR will be something like:
../PROJECT-NAME/build/libs/ARTIFACT-NAME-ARTIFACT-VERSION.jar. Use-DpomFile=PATH-TO-EXISTING-POMinstead of-DgeneratePom=trueif you already have a POM.
If you already have a repository using this way explained above, you can use the following commands to setup another machine in order to update your repository.
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Clone your maven2 branch to a local folder which name is followed by "-maven2" (change GROUP-NAME and PROJECT-NAME)
git clone https://github.com/GROUP-NAME/PROJECT-NAME.git PROJECT-NAME-maven2 --branch maven2 -
To update your maven2 repo, follow steps from run mvn install for jar creation
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