Re: [ANNOUCNE] repo - The Multiple Git Repository Tool
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- Leo Razoumov <slonik.az@gmail.com>
- Date
- Oct 22, 2008, 19:55 UTC
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- <ee2a733e0810221255u23aabef2i66d878bcbfa11816@mail.gmail.com>
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- <20081022154245.GT14786@spearce.org>
On 10/22/08, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
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> My "bundle related secret project" was released yesterday by Google > as part of the Android open source release event. (I've mentioned > it before on-list in the context of a modified "git status" output.) > > Google developed two tools, repo and Gerrit, and open sourced them > under the Apache License: > > http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=tools/repo.git > http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=tools/gerrit.git > > git://android.git.kernel.org/tools/repo.git > git://android.git.kernel.org/tools/gerrit.git > > repo is a Python application to bind together Git repositories, > something like "git submodule", except it can track a project's > branch rather than a specific Git commit. repo is also able to > natively import a tarball or zip file and use it to initialize a > repository from an upstream source, then apply git based changes > on top of that tarball. In other words, repo is (more or less) > built to manage an OS distribution, in Git. > [..snip..]
Are there any plans to make repo an official git command (e.g. git-repo) or merge its functionality with git-submodule?
--Leo--