The point of JGit was to provide a Git plugin for Eclipse. In this case the start-time is "outsourced" to Eclipse. Seems like there are many other potential us

The point of JGit was to provide a Git plugin for Eclipse. In this case the start-time is "outsourced" to Eclipse. Seems like there are many other potential uses for this: other Java IDEs, web applications, integration into Java SCM tools - places where Git would be very useful and start-time can be neglected.