Before we start, we need a repository to work in. You can use a previous clone of jgit, but to get a close-to-identical output from the example, you can clone the jgit repository.
The jgit repository can be cloned as follows:
$ git clone https://git.eclipse.org/r/jgit/jgit chapter4 $ cd chapter4
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