From a41ec37ec3b4c09409391fb02524db1f07b82030 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Soares <bsoares@dundee.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2020 17:30:51 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] JAL-3225 some fixes to build.gradle for working in Eclipse
 and not always changing doc/building.html

---
 build.gradle |   38 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 51deb4c..236f9ca 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -992,22 +992,25 @@ def getDate(format) {
 
 
 task setGitVals {
-  def hashStdOut = new ByteArrayOutputStream()
-  exec {
-    commandLine "git", "rev-parse", "--short", "HEAD"
-    standardOutput = hashStdOut
-    ignoreExitValue true
-  }
 
-  def branchStdOut = new ByteArrayOutputStream()
-  exec {
-    commandLine "git", "rev-parse", "--abbrev-ref", "HEAD"
-    standardOutput = branchStdOut
-    ignoreExitValue true
-  }
+  doFirst {
+    def hashStdOut = new ByteArrayOutputStream()
+    def resultHash = exec {
+      commandLine "git", "rev-parse", "--short", "HEAD"
+      standardOutput = hashStdOut
+      ignoreExitValue true
+    }
+
+    def branchStdOut = new ByteArrayOutputStream()
+    def resultBranch = exec {
+      commandLine "git", "rev-parse", "--abbrev-ref", "HEAD"
+      standardOutput = branchStdOut
+      ignoreExitValue true
+    }
 
-  gitHash = hashStdOut.toString().trim()
-  gitBranch = branchStdOut.toString().trim()
+    gitHash = resultHash.getExitValue() == 0 ? hashStdOut.toString().trim() : "NO_GIT_COMMITID_FOUND"
+    gitBranch = resultBranch.getExitValue() == 0 ? branchStdOut.toString().trim() : "NO_GIT_BRANCH_FOUND"
+  }
 
   outputs.upToDateWhen { false }
 }
@@ -1082,7 +1085,7 @@ task convertBuildingMD(type: Exec) {
 
 
 task syncDocs(type: Sync) {
-  dependsOn convertBuildingMD
+  //dependsOn convertBuildingMD
   def syncDir = "${classesDir}/${doc_dir}"
   from fileTree("${jalviewDir}/${doc_dir}")
   into syncDir
@@ -1309,6 +1312,7 @@ task cleanDist {
 
 shadowJar {
   group = "distribution"
+  description = "Create a single jar file with all dependency libraries merged. Can be run with java -jar"
   if (buildDist) {
     dependsOn makeDist
   }
@@ -1783,7 +1787,11 @@ spotless {
 
 
 task sourceDist(type: Tar) {
+  group "distribution"
+  description "Create a source .tar.gz file for distribution"
   
+  dependsOn convertBuildingMD
+
   def VERSION_UNDERSCORES = JALVIEW_VERSION.replaceAll("\\.", "_")
   def outputFileName = "${project.name}_${VERSION_UNDERSCORES}.tar.gz"
   // cater for buildship < 3.1 [3.0.1 is max version in eclipse 2018-09]
-- 
1.7.10.2