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.

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”.

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).

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.

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.