About

This Mock VCS plugin acts as a fallback, should no supported VCS be detected, as it is of VcsType.UNKOWN and has priority 0. However, it provides the all required interfaces of a VersionControlSystem for ORT to function as if a VCS were present. This makes it possible to scan software projects with no version control or unsupported VCSs.

The plugin is kept simple and provides mostly hard coded return values.

• It's DummyWorkingTree is empty and only knows revision main.
• As the RemoteURL the tree returns the local workingDir (given via -i).
• Upon calling initWorkingTree, the plugin copies content of the vcs.url into the appropriate cache directory. So ORT can scan the project as is.

The template Gradle project was forked from ort-package-manager-plugin, which can be used to create a plugin for the OSS Review Toolkit.

Usage

1. Clone this repository
2. Execute InstallDist job in gradle
3. Take the resulting build/install/MockVcsPlugin/MockVcsPlugin.jar and place it in the ort/plugin directory of your ORT installation.
4. Execute ort from ort/bin/ort.