Git-tf unable to find required JAR

Question

I'm trying to setup git-tf bridge on my windows work station. When I try to execute one of the commands it always shows message:

Unable to find a required JAR: C:\my\path\to\git-tf/lib/com.microsoft.gittf.client.clc-*jar does not exist.

The problem is that slash changes in the middle of the path from \ is changed to /.

Thanks in advance.

Glyoxaline

Why do you think that's the problem? Are there some files matching that path wildcard? How did you uncompress the zip file? – Showiness

Which command did you use? – Municipality

Actually turned out that if Im using "git tf" commands error occurs but if I use "git-tf" everything is fine. – Glyoxaline

But it should work with git tf. I had it working until I reinstalled git. Now I get the same error. Any new insights? – Rivet

I installed git-tf the other day and git tf never worked. Did you work this out? – Shackleton

Answer 1

I'm assuming you use the Git Bash.

You'll need to edit your git-tf bash script and change the line

MINGW32_NT*)

to

MINGW*)

because for you, uname -s will probably spit out “MINGW64_NT”.

Rivet

Exactly the issue, exactly the solution - much obliged. – Happening

Worked for me too. Thx – Desantis

This file exists under C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\Git-TF\Tools\git-tf-2.0.3.20131219\git-tf – Shimmery

Just stumbled upon the very same issue. Solution works perfectly. Make sure it is the git-tf file and not the cmd file. – Zephan

Answer 2

Try using "git-tf" instead of "git tf". That got me past the issue on Windows (using PowerShell or just the vanilla command prompt).

Solmization

Answer 3

For me the case is actually that the jar file is not available.

Check first if a chocolatey installation would bring that jar in the installed path, as in this issue.

choco install git-tf 
# or
choco upgrade git-tf -version 2.0.3.20131219

You should see:

Contents of Git-TF\lib:
com.microsoft.gittf.client.clc-2.0.3.20131219.jar
com.microsoft.gittf.core-2.0.3.20131219.jar
com.microsoft.tfs.sdk-12.0.0.jar
org.eclipse.jgit-3.1.0.201310021548-r.jar

The official archive git-tf-2.0.3.20131219.zip has the expected jars.

Flabellate

I apologize, didn't mention before. I cannot go with choclatey option. I've directly downloaded from Microsoft's download page... – Squinteyed

@Squinteyed ant the content of the archive you downloaded is not the same as the one I mention in the answer? – Flabellate

@Squinteyed Because I just downloaded download.microsoft.com/download/A/E/2/… (from the page gittf.codeplex.com/releases/view/116074), and I do have those jars. – Flabellate

Weird thing to notice, but the zip on my desktop didn't have the files, but the zip downloaded in our shared software directory has them. Eludes me as to how this happened... – Squinteyed

Answer 4

If the script exists, it warns that it could not be found, you should try using "git-tf" instead of "git tf". I worked well.

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