clone over https

[dasch124]

Hi,
first thanks for publishing the released xar package - I tried to build eXgit by myself, but ran into the same issue like joeviz, so this helped me to get started.

I was wondering: Is it (or will it be) possible to clone a git repo via https or using public keys? We have several institutional git repositories that are managed with gitolite or the Redmine Git Hosting plugin - so the only option to clone with credentials is via https.

That's what I tried so far:

xquery version "3.0";

import module namespace git="http://exist-db.org/git";

let $remotePath := "https://myuser@somehost.org/redmine/myRepo.git",
    $localPath := "/db/myClone",
    $username := "myusername",
    $password := "mypassword"

return git:clone($remotePath, $localPath, $username, $password)

this leads to an org.eclipse.jgit.api.errors.InvalidRemoteException: Invalid remote: origin

Using the git bash, the same remote Path is reachable and works fine.

I guess this is a feature, not a bug - but maybe this would be not too complex to add?
Thanks,
Daniel