Running Java snippets

To debug, we may sometimes send you small Java snippets to run, usually compressed in a ZIP file. To run these snippets, you need to have a SmartGit installation on your system which also comes with its own runtime environment:

1. Uncompress the ZIP file contents to a temporary directory, e.g. c:\temp\debug

2. Open a command line/terminal, cd to this directory and invoke:

   Usage

   {jre}/bin/java -classpath . {classname} > out.txt 
   

   Substitute {classname} by the class name we have asked you to run and {jre} by the path to SmartGit’s JRE. Depending on your operating system, you will find the JRE at:

   1. Windows: <smartgit-installation>\jre
   2. Linux: <smartgit-installation>/jre
   3. MacOS: <smartgit.app>/Contents/Resources/jre

   Example

   "C:\Program Files\SmartGit\jre\bin\java.exe" -classpath . NioFileSystemWalk "c:\temp\repo" true > out.txt 
   

3. If there is an error printed which is not related to a wrong command line usage, also pipe stderr to a separate file:

   {jre}/bin/java -classpath . {classname} > out.txt 2> err.txt
   

4. You may investigate both out.txt (and err.txt) yourself to figure out possible problems.

5. Finally, send us compressed out.txt (and err.txt) to [email protected].