Add convenience factory method for most used builder pattern

This will simplify to adapt EGit to the removal of FileRepository from
jgit's public API in change I2ab1327c202ef2003565e1b0770a583970e432e9.

Change-Id: If98b0b97e8f13a94d4ea7ba1be0f90d82b0fba4b
Signed-off-by: Matthias Sohn <matthias.sohn@sap.com>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/storage/file/FileRepositoryBuilder.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/storage/file/FileRepositoryBuilder.java
index b0f1a85c6f..60c916ebcc 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/storage/file/FileRepositoryBuilder.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/storage/file/FileRepositoryBuilder.java
@@ -93,4 +93,19 @@ public class FileRepositoryBuilder extends
 			throw new RepositoryNotFoundException(getGitDir());
 		return repo;
 	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Convenience factory method to construct a {@link FileRepository}.
+	 *
+	 * @param gitDir
+	 *            {@code GIT_DIR}, the repository meta directory.
+	 * @return a repository matching this configuration.
+	 * @throws IOException
+	 *             the repository could not be accessed to configure the rest of
+	 *             the builder's parameters.
+	 */
+	public static Repository create(File gitDir) throws IOException {
+		return new FileRepositoryBuilder().setGitDir(gitDir).readEnvironment()
+				.build();
+	}
 }