Building maven-scm-1.6 requires a native install of git.

As a follow up.

Even when git is installed, there are still issues with the build.

So there would appear to be some additional setup required:

Running org.apache.maven.scm.provider.git.gitexe.command.checkin.GitCheckInCommandNoBranchTest
[INFO] Executing: cmd.exe /X /C "git clone C\CALMData\Workspaces\RTC\Deb\maven-scm-1.6\maven-scm-providers\maven-scm-providers-git\maven-scm-provider-gitexe\target\git_copy C:\CALM
Data\Workspaces\RTC\Deb\maven-scm-1.6\maven-scm-providers\maven-scm-providers-git\maven-scm-provider-gitexe\target\checkin-nobranch"
[INFO] Working directory: C:\CALMData\Workspaces\RTC\Deb\maven-scm-1.6\maven-scm-providers\maven-scm-providers-git\maven-scm-provider-gitexe\target
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Provider message
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The git-clone command failed.
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Command output
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fatal: repository 'C\CALMData\Workspaces\RTC\Deb\maven-scm-1.6\maven-scm-providers\maven-scm-providers-git\maven-scm-provider-gitexe\target\git_copy' does not exist

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Tests run: 1, Failures: 1, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.985 sec <<< FAILURE!
Running org.apache.maven.scm.provider.git.gitexe.command.checkin.GitCheckInCommandTest
Tests run: 2, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.015 sec
Running org.apache.maven.scm.provider.git.gitexe.command.checkout.GitCheckOutCommandTest
Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.032 sec
Running org.apache.maven.scm.provider.git.gitexe.command.checkout.GitExeCheckOutCommandNoBranchTest
[INFO] Executing: cmd.exe /X /C "git clone C\CALMData\Workspaces\RTC\Deb\maven-scm-1.6\maven-scm-providers\maven-scm-providers-git\maven-scm-provider-gitexe\src\test\resources\repo
sitory_no_branch C:\CALMData\Workspaces\RTC\Deb\maven-scm-1.6\maven-scm-providers\maven-scm-providers-git\maven-scm-provider-gitexe\target\checkin-nobranch"
[INFO] Working directory: C:\CALMData\Workspaces\RTC\Deb\maven-scm-1.6\maven-scm-providers\maven-scm-providers-git\maven-scm-provider-gitexe\target
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Provider message
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The git-clone command failed.
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Command output
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fatal: repository 'C\CALMData\Workspaces\RTC\Deb\maven-scm-1.6\maven-scm-providers\maven-scm-providers-git\maven-scm-provider-gitexe\src\test\resources\repository_no_branch' does n
ot exist

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[INFO] Executing: cmd.exe /X /C "git clone C\CALMData\Workspaces\RTC\Deb\maven-scm-1.6\maven-scm-providers\maven-scm-providers-git\maven-scm-provider-gitexe\src\test\resources\repo
sitory_no_branch C:\CALMData\Workspaces\RTC\Deb\maven-scm-1.6\maven-scm-providers\maven-scm-providers-git\maven-scm-provider-gitexe\target\checkin-nobranch"
[INFO] Working directory: C:\CALMData\Workspaces\RTC\Deb\maven-scm-1.6\maven-scm-providers\maven-scm-providers-git\maven-scm-provider-gitexe\target
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Provider message
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The git-clone command failed.
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Command output
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fatal: repository 'C\CALMData\Workspaces\RTC\Deb\maven-scm-1.6\maven-scm-providers\maven-scm-providers-git\maven-scm-provider-gitexe\src\test\resources\repository_no_branch' does n
ot exist

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Tests run: 2, Failures: 2, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.609 sec <<< FAILURE!
Running org.apache.maven.scm.provider.git.gitexe.command.remoteinfo.GitRemoteInfoConsumerTest
Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0 sec
Running org.apache.maven.scm.provider.git.gitexe.command.remove.GitRemoveCommandTest
Tests run: 3, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.687 sec
Running org.apache.maven.scm.provider.git.gitexe.command.remove.GitRemoveConsumerTest
Tests run: 3, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.047 sec
Running org.apache.maven.scm.provider.git.gitexe.command.status.GitStatusConsumerTest
Tests run: 12, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.203 sec
Running org.apache.maven.scm.provider.git.gitexe.command.tag.GitTagCommandTest
Tests run: 2, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.016 sec
Running org.apache.maven.scm.provider.git.gitexe.command.update.GitLatestRevisionCommandConsumerTest
Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.015 sec
Running org.apache.maven.scm.provider.git.gitexe.command.update.GitUpdateCommandConsumerTest
Tests run: 5, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.031 sec
Running org.apache.maven.scm.provider.git.gitexe.command.update.GitUpdateCommandTest
Tests run: 3, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.031 sec

Results :

Failed tests: testCheckinNoBranch(org.apache.maven.scm.provider.git.gitexe.command.checkin.GitCheckInCommandNoBranchTest): The check out result success flag was false.
testCheckoutNoBranch(org.apache.maven.scm.provider.git.gitexe.command.checkout.GitExeCheckOutCommandNoBranchTest): The check out result success flag was false.
testDoubleCheckoutNoBranch(org.apache.maven.scm.provider.git.gitexe.command.checkout.GitExeCheckOutCommandNoBranchTest): The check out result success flag was false.

Tests run: 57, Failures: 3, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] There are test failures.

Please refer to C:\CALMData\Workspaces\RTC\Deb\maven-scm-1.6\maven-scm-providers\maven-scm-providers-git\maven-scm-provider-gitexe\target\surefire-reports for the individual test results.
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch
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[INFO] Total time: 4 minutes 20 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Thu Jan 12 11:22:42 EST 2012
[INFO] Final Memory: 195M/302M
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C:\CALMData\Workspaces\RTC\Deb\maven-scm-1.6>

Is this a GIT issue?

fatal: repository 'C\CALMData\Workspaces\RTC\Deb\maven-scm-1.6\maven-scm-providers\maven-scm-providers-git\maven-scm-provider-gitexe\src\test\resources\repository_no_branch' does not exist

It should be 'C:\CALMData\...' What happened to the colon?

Clearly this can not be fixed for 1.6. However, the same issues are still occurring for 1.7-SNAPSHOT, so can it be fixed there?

looks to be an issue on windauze .
As it works here (osx) and on ASF Jenkins (https://builds.apache.org/job/maven-scm/) ubuntu machine.
Perso I don't have windauze .
Do you have idea or patch to provide ?

I can confirm this issue. The problem seems to be the GitScmProviderRepository which tries to evaluate the URL and seems to have trouble with the drive-name.

This changes the local file system repos to use file:/// + repo.getAbsolutePath().

should be fixed with rev 1240094
can a windauze user confirms ?

btw I have added a jenkins job on windauze node: https://builds.apache.org/job/maven-scm-windows

should be fixed with r1240126
if not reopen the issue.

The patch fixed the issue of the tests failing on windows. Yey!

However, the original issue, of still requiring a native install of git, that has still yet to be resolved.

I would like to be able to build all of the scm tree without any native scm tools in place.

nope I have normally fix that too
see http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1240126

Indeed so you had. Here is a slightly more elegant means of doing the same thing, and it is more consistent with the way that the other providers are tested (which is my preference).

Actually, getting back to the issue with the broken URL's, there is a better way, one that was already there:

So, change:

scmRepository = getScmManager().makeScmRepository( "scm:git:file:///" + repo.getAbsolutePath() );

To:

scmRepository = getScmManager().makeScmRepository( GitScmTestUtils.getScmUrl(repo, "git") );

And you've got effectively the same thing. And, it now covers the cygwin stuff as well (so I'm assuming that it's better tested).

Opps. I'm not sure if this will work:

if ( !isSystemCmd( GitScmTestUtils.GIT_COMMAND_LINE ) )

because on my system, I have git.cmd in the path, not git.exe.

So it incorrectly thinks that git is not available. (When it is).

When I've added the git bin dir into the path (where git.exe lives), the test successfully runs - it does not erroneously skip the test.

Should be fixed I simply missed to close the issue.