Does jGit support any of the following?

Question

I reviewed the documentation at the web site and searched their forums but the following are still unclear so I just need a bit more info. With jGit can I:

• Create new repositories
• add users / rsa keys to a repository

Or is jGit purely for client side operations?

Answer 1

JGit supports the creation of new repositories: See Running the JGit CLI , one of the commands being:

init     Create an empty git repository

However, when it comes to "assign users to a repo", this is no longer a git issue, but an authorization system issue.
You need to add an extra layer to your Git setup (whether it is used with JGit or any other Git library) in order to manage the authorization.
I would recommend gitolite.

(and that doesn't include the authentication issue, which isn't covered by JGit or gitolite: see all the issues you might have to cover).