repo and manifest directories

[Warren Turkal]

Repo experts,

Is there a default name for a file that is used when a directory is specified for a manifest?

For example, let's say I type the following:

repo init -u <some_url> -m a_test

where "a_test" is a directory. Will repo append some default filename?

My use case is something like the this. We have a manifest that is currently a file. Let's say it's called "a_test". We would like to change "a_test" to being a directory that contains multiple manifests. I would be great if we could more "a_test" to "a_test/default.xml" or something like that that would allow to get the same manifest when I us the "-m a_test" args for repo so that current uses of the "a_test" manifest don't break.

wt

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Warren Turkal
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www.ooyala.com | blog | @ooyala

[Shawn Pearce]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Warren Turkal <w...@ooyala.com> wrote:
>
> Repo experts,
>
> Is there a default name for a file that is used when a directory is specified for a manifest?
>
> For example, let's say I type the following:
> repo init -u <some_url> -m a_test
>
> where "a_test" is a directory. Will repo append some default filename?

No. The name to -m is the name of the XML file. If you omit -m its default.xml.

[Warren Turkal]

Would you be interested in my adding a feature to accept a directory name with an appended "default" or "default.xml" so that changing a manifest file to a directory could be less traumatic?

wt

[Warren Turkal]

BTW, I mean less traumatic in that there would be a reasonable way to transition from a manifest file to a file in a directory with the same name.

Another possible feature would be to have a file at the root of manifest that has aliases. Would that be interesting?

wt

[Shawn Pearce]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Warren Turkal <w...@ooyala.com> wrote:

BTW, I mean less traumatic in that there would be a reasonable way to transition from a manifest file to a file in a directory with the same name.

Well, we never envisioned a manifest repository so complex that you needed directories. Or magic layers of indirection to rename a file.

Another possible feature would be to have a file at the root of manifest that has aliases. Would that be interesting?

Have you tried making the old name a symlink to the new name?

 

wt

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Warren Turkal <w...@ooyala.com> wrote:

Would you be interested in my adding a feature to accept a directory name with an appended "default" or "default.xml" so that changing a manifest file to a directory could be less traumatic?

wt

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Shawn Pearce <s...@google.com> wrote:

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Warren Turkal <w...@ooyala.com> wrote:
>
> Repo experts,
>
> Is there a default name for a file that is used when a directory is specified for a manifest?
>
> For example, let's say I type the following:
> repo init -u <some_url> -m a_test
>
> where "a_test" is a directory. Will repo append some default filename?

No. The name to -m is the name of the XML file. If you omit -m its default.xml.

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Warren Turkal
Site Reliability Engineer | 
w...@ooyala.com | 650-961-3400
www.ooyala.com | blog | @ooyala

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Warren Turkal
Site Reliability Engineer | 
w...@ooyala.com | 650-961-3400
www.ooyala.com | blog | @ooyala

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