Here is my quick write up how to build and run HBase

$ git clone https://github.com/apache/hbase.git
$ cd hbase
$ git checkout <branch name>
$ mvn clean install -DskipTests assembly:single

 

Ubzip the tar file and run the shell

 

$ tar xzvf hbase-assembly/target/hbase-2.0.0-SNAPSHOT-bin.tar.gz
$ export HBASE_HOME=`pwd`/hbase-2.0.0-SNAPSHOT
$ export PATH=$HBASE_HOME/bin:$PATH
$ start-hbase.sh
$ hbase shell

 

The JIRA issue