Fixing "missing dspace modules jspui src main webapp directory"

At one point in time, no modifications had been made to the DSpace repository to improve its interaction with Git, only SVN was supported. So you'll need to create a .gitignore file that will ignore certain file name patterns from version control. Files to ignore are the compiled output directories called target.

echo "target/" > .gitignore

If you run into an error while trying to recompile with 'mvn package' that dspace/modules/jspui/src/main/webapp directory does not exist, then you have to create that directory. This is due to Git's inability to track empty directories. The DSpace/Git repository has since fixed the interaction with this, but if this affects you, then these are the steps to fix this.

mkdir -p dspace/modules/jspui/src/main/webapp  
mkdir -p dspace/modules/lni/src/main/webapp  
mkdir -p dspace/modules/oai/src/main/webapp  
mkdir -p dspace/modules/solr/src/main/webapp  
mkdir -p dspace/modules/sword/src/main/webapp  
mkdir -p dspace/modules/swordv2/src/main/webapp  
mkdir -p dspace/modules/xmlui/src/main/webapp

And put a place-holder file that can be ignored, so that Git tracks the directory.

touch dspace/modules/jspui/src/main/webapp/.gitignore
touch dspace/modules/lni/src/main/webapp/.gitignore  
touch dspace/modules/oai/src/main/webapp/.gitignore  
touch dspace/modules/solr/src/main/webapp/.gitignore  
touch dspace/modules/sword/src/main/webapp/.gitignore  
touch dspace/modules/swordv2/src/main/webapp/.gitignore  
touch dspace/modules/xmlui/src/main/webapp/.gitignore