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6 repotool - query or manipulate a CVS, Subversion, git, bzr, hg, or
7 darcs repository in a uniform way
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10 repotool [action] [URL-or-dir]
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13 repotool is a script wrapper around repository operations that differ
14 by version-control system. It is little use by itself, existing mainly
15 to generate and simplify a conversion makefile usable with
16 reposurgeon(1).
17 Not all actions are supported on all systems. You will get an error
19 message and a return value of 1 when attempting an unsupported action.
20 The "initialize" option takes a project name (and, optionally,
22 following source and target VCCS types) and generates a Makefile that
23 will sequence various steps of a repository conversion. It also
24 generates stub lift and options files. This is meant to be run in an
25 empty work directory, and it is an error to do 'initialize' where any
26 of these files already exist. Afterwards, you will need to set some
27 variables in the Makefile; read its header comment.
28 The 'export' action, run from within a repository directory, dumps a
30 copy of a CVS, Subversion, git, bzr, hg, or darcs repository to a flat
31 history file readable by reposurgeon. The format is usually a
32 git-fast-import stream, except that Subversion repositories export as
33 Subversion dump files; the point is to be a lossless erepresentation,
34 or as close to one as possible.
35 The 'tags' option, run from within a repository directory, returns a
37 list of the repository's release tags.
38 The 'branches' option, run from within a repository directory , returns
40 a list of the repository's branch names.
41 The 'checkout' option checks out a working copy of the repository. It
43 must be called from within the repository. It takes one required
44 argument - the checkout directory location. It may take a following
45 optional argument which is a tag or revision specification; if this
46 argument is not given, the tip (most recent) mainline revision is
47 assumed.
48 The 'compare' action takes two repository directories and a revision
50 spec (typically a tag name). If the revision spec is omitted, the tip
51 of the main line of both repositories will be used. The selected
52 revisions are cpmpared with diff -q -r, with noise due to SCCS/RCS/CVS
53 keyword expansion ignored. You can follow the command verb with one or
54 more -x options followed by basenames of paths to exclude from
55 comparison. You can get a context-diff report on file differences with
56 the -u option.
57 The 'compare-tags' action takes two repository directories, extracts a
59 list of tags from the first, then compares the repository contents at
60 each tag in the list, generating a compare report for each. You can
61 follow the command verb with one or more -x options followed by
62 basenames of paths to exclude from comparison. You can get a
63 context-diff report on file differences with the -u option.
64 The 'compare-branches' action takes two repository directories,
66 extracts a list of branches common to both, then compares the
67 repository contents at each branch in the list, generating a compare
68 report for each. You can follow the command verb with one or more -x
69 options followed by basenames of paths to exclude from comparison. You
70 can get a context-diff report on file differences with the -u option.
71 The 'compare-all' action takes two repository directories, and runs all
73 3 above compare actions on them. Even if the same name is a tag in one
74 repository and a branch in the other, it will compare them against each
75 other. Not distinguishing them is useful as CVS tags that are not
76 applied to every file in the repository may get converted to branches.
77 The options are the same as 'compare-tags'.
78 The 'mirror' action makes or updates a local mirror of a Subversion or
80 CVS repo. It requires a single argument, either a Subversion URL or a
81 CVS URL, or the name of a local mirror directory created by a previous
82 run. The first form creates a local mirror of the repository in a
83 directory named after the last segment of the URL, with the suffix
84 “-mirror” (the local mirror name can be overridden by an optional)
85 second argument. The second form updates the local mirror, doing an
86 incremental fetch; just give the mirror directory name.
87 Subversion URLs are as specified in the public documentation for
89 Subversion. CVS URLs must specify a host and repository path, followed
90 by a '#', followed by a module name.
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93 This program uses the $TMPDIR environment variable, defaulting to /tmp
94 if it is not set.
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97 The export action is a wrapper around either native export facilities
98 or the following engines: cvs-fast-export(1) (for CVS), svnadmin(1)
99 (for SVN), hg-fast-export.py(1) (for hg). You must have the appropriate
100 engine in your $PATH for whatever kind of repository you are streaming.
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103 reposurgeon(1).
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106 Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>. This tool is distributed with
107 reposurgeon; see the project page at
108 http://www.catb.org/~esr/reposurgeon.
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