Repository manifest

This repository contains an XML manifest for repo, the multiple git repository tool.

Using repo to checkout your system code

The following commands will allow you to checkout a working set of repositories to build the system:

# Use a work directory for your project
$ mkdir seapath
$ cd seapath/

Next checkout repositories using the repo-manifest:

$ repo init -u "https://github.com/seapath/repo-manifest.git"
$ repo sync

To checkout the dunfell version:

$ repo init -u "https://github.com/seapath/repo-manifest.git" -m dunfell.xml
$ repo sync

The system’s repositories will then be checked out in the current directory at the paths and revisions expressed in the xml file.

Why repo ?

The system we are building is split into several Git repositories, each of them containing a specific set of files for a specific function.

To work together well, these repositories must be checked out at a very specific revision, which is compatible with each other’s repository specific revision. This can be a tedious task to do and require manual repetition, and that’s where repo comes in handy.

Installing repo on your system

The repo tool can be installed on Linux using your distro’s package manager:

On Debian/Ubuntu systems, use the following command:

$ sudo apt install repo

For other systems, the homepage of the project is at https://gerrit.googlesource.com/git-repo/