On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 17:47, skillzero <skillz
...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there documentation for the repo manifest file and how to set
> things up to use repo outside of Android?
repo help manifest
If you don't have an existing repo client, just clone the repo repository:
git clone git://android.git.kernel.org/tools/repo.git
./repo help manifest
Do the git repositories need
> to be set up in any special way to use them effectively with repo?
No. They are just standard Git repositories, like any other repository.
> Or
> is repo not recommended for use outside of Android?
Its another solution to git-submodule. Personally I don't find
git-submodule to be very useful. repo has more features at this point, and
can implement both "floating branch" (where the repository tracks a branch
and automatically advances) and "pegged revision" models (where the
repository is frozen to a specific SHA-1 listed in the manifest).
> I started converting a large CVS repository (~3GB of code when checked
> out) to git, but it's just too much for a single git repository to
> handle (takes a long time for things like git status, etc.). I'd also
> like to split things up since most people only need to work on their
> project and not the whole thing. repo seems perfect for this so I
> wanted to ask before I went down the wrong path.
Its why we built it for Android! :-)
We have tried really hard to make sure repo is a general solution to this
sort of problem, and is not Android specific. But, if you find rough edges,
please report them so we can make it even better.
