How to get current git branch inside StartActivity

Check GitBranchUtil.getCurrentRepository().getCurrentBranch().

If you want to fetch, you can use GitFetcher. However, it shows a success notification, so maybe it is not the best candidate for your task of silent implicit fetch. To fetch manually, call Git.fetch() (see GitFetcher implementation for details).

Thanks Kirill for the to the solution.

I tried the above-mentioned approach but it says "Class GitBranchUtil not found". Many of the APIs which I have used so far never asked to attach any library because all are available in the plugin development. If I try to attach the jar file it's still complaining.

What mistake I am doing I have no clue. 

Regards,

Vikash

I Have the same question. Is a libary needed or recommended for GIT-Actions, especially for intellij? I use JGIT.

And how to recognize if the branch was changed. is there a callback or similar?

Thanks!

Nevermind, figured it out.

The plugin git2idea (aka IntelliJ-idea git integration plugin) has the API you mentioned in the answer. And I add the git2idea jar file in the plugin sdk classpath and added the <deped> tag in the plugin.xml file. Here's the doc I followed http://www.jetbrains.org/intellij/sdk/docs/basics/plugin_structure/plugin_dependencies.html.

As of now my requirement does not have to look for branch change but I found something useful in order to find solution for my problem. May be of your use, https://github.com/zielu/GitToolBox/blob/12a2a78ccf31dad0177cae34a1a1fa75c4ad1610/GitToolBox/src/zielu/gittoolbox/repo/GtRepositoryManager.java

Let me know if it works for you.

Thank you,

Please note that GitToolBox is a 3-party plugin, and its GitRepositoryManager != the one from git4idea.

@Michael Wölk 

Currently there is no API to listen to branch changes. There is API for any change in repository: take a look at GitRepository.GIT_REPO_CHANGE and its usages. You probably should remember your current branch, listen to GIT_REPO_CHANGE events, get GitRepository.getCurrentBranch() and compare it with your remembered value.

Great - Thank you guys - i give it a try tomorrow :-)