repo v2.63

[Gavin Mak]

Hi all,

repo v2.63 has been released: https://gerrit.googlesource.com/git-repo/+/refs/tags/v2.63. I plan to promote it to stable Wednesday 4/22.

v2.63 introduces command forgiveness with autocorrect to handle typoed repo subcommands and adds a new `sync-strategy` manifest attribute to support "stateless" sync for large repos. It also refactors sync GC operations to fix a config leakage bug and fixes hangs during repacks in partial clones.

Changelog (link):
baa281d (Gavin Mak) sync: Refactor to use _RunOneGC and fix config leakage
7e9079b (Gavin Mak) sync: Switch to using self._bloated_projects
61bd6b3 (Gavin Mak) tests: Add tests for _CheckForBloatedProjects and _GCProjects
32e7327 (Marty Heavey) upload: Clarify partial sync message on hook failure
4f707ff (Gavin Mak) sync: Provide feedback during post-sync operations
e2671c1 (Gavin Mak) progress: Ignore updates after progress ends
b43a20b (Becky Siegel) project: Avoid skipping fetches for shallow clones without .git/shallow
8869a30 (Miyako.Enei) project: Drop --no-deref from update-ref --stdin
3b0eebe (Gavin Mak) project: implement stateless sync pruning logic
00991bf (Gavin Mak) manifest: Add `sync-strategy` attribute to project elements
e8338b5 (Nasser Grainawi) tests: Convert forall subcmd test to pytest
951666f (Gavin Mak) gc: Fix hang during repack in partial clones
854b330 (Carlos Fernandez) test_wrapper: add test for repo script executable permission
654690e (Mike Frysinger) tests: convert more tests to pytest
ac2be4c (Mike Frysinger) tests: convert __file__ usage to pathlib
3d819e8 (Mike Frysinger) tests: unify fixture() helper with Path constant
5739839 (Carlos Fernandez) Fix all flake8 warnings from newer flake8-bugbear and flake8-comprehensions
3f3c681 (Gavin Mak) project: Refactor GetHead to use symbolic-ref first
242e97d (Sam Saccone) Implement command forgiveness with autocorrect

[Gavin Mak]

I just received a report of sync failing on some manifests, likely due to a optimizations made in b43a20b. I'll postpone promoting v2.63 to stable until this is resolved. 

[Gavin Mak]

v2.63 has now been promoted to stable. (The reporter of the previously mentioned bug confirmed it wasn't introduced by v2.63)

[Marc De Boeck]

Hello Gavin,

Since this release, it seems our windows users have problems running the upgrade of repo during the repo init command. Is this a known problem? Can you advice what to do?

Downloading Repo source from https://gerrit.googlesource.com/git-repo
repo: error: "git" failed with exit status 1
  cwd: C:\Data\GIT\.repo\repo.tmp
  cmd: ['git', 'tag', '-v', 'v2.63']
  stdout:
>> object baa281d99e59dbf1447524e6fd95b384cadbc06e
>> type commit
>> tag v2.63
>> tagger Gavin Mak <gavi...@google.com> 1776725691 +0000
>>
>> repo v2.63
  stderr:
>> gpg: keyblock resource '/c/Data/GIT/.repo/repo.tmp/C:\\Users\\xxx\\.repoconfig\\gnupg/pubring.kbx': No such file or directory
>> gpg: Signature made Tue Apr 21 00:54:51 2026
>> gpg:                using DSA key 8BB9AD793E8E6153AF0F9A4416530D5E920F5C65
>> gpg: Can't check signature: No public key
fatal: double check your --repo-rev setting.
fatal: cloning the git-repo repository failed, will remove '.repo\repo'

Thanks in advance,

Marc

Op dinsdag 21 april 2026 om 01:11:30 UTC+2 schreef Gavin Mak:

[Gavin Mak]

Please file a bug here: https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/new?component=1370071. This looks like an issue in the repo launcher, but that hasn't had any changes since v2.61.1. As temporary workaround, you can pass --no-repo-verify to repo init.

[Marc De Boeck]

Thx. Bug report created: https://issues.gerritcodereview.com/510840000

Op dinsdag 5 mei 2026 om 22:59:53 UTC+2 schreef Gavin Mak: