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Re: [ANNOUCNE] repo - The Multiple Git Repository Tool

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LRLeo Razoumov <slonik.az@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 22, 2008, 19:55 UTC
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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--
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