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NAME
repo - repo manifest - manual page for repo manifest
SYNOPSIS
repo manifest [-o {-|NAME.xml}] [-m MANIFEST.xml] [-r]
DESCRIPTION
Summary
Manifest inspection utility
OPTIONS
-h, --help
show this help message and exit
-r, --revision-as-HEAD
save revisions as current HEAD
-m NAME.xml, --manifest-name=NAME.xml
temporary manifest to use for this sync
--suppress-upstream-revision
if in -r mode, do not write the upstream field (only of use if the branch names for
a sha1 manifest are sensitive)
--suppress-dest-branch
if in -r mode, do not write the dest-branch field (only of use if the branch names
for a sha1 manifest are sensitive)
--json output manifest in JSON format (experimental)
--pretty
format output for humans to read
--no-local-manifests
ignore local manifests
-o -|NAME.xml, --output-file=-|NAME.xml
file to save the manifest to. (Filename prefix for multi-tree.)
Logging options:
-v, --verbose
show all output
-q, --quiet
only show errors
Multi-manifest options:
--outer-manifest
operate starting at the outermost manifest
--no-outer-manifest
do not operate on outer manifests
--this-manifest-only
only operate on this (sub)manifest
--no-this-manifest-only, --all-manifests
operate on this manifest and its submanifests
Run `repo help manifest` to view the detailed manual.
DETAILS
With the -o option, exports the current manifest for inspection. The manifest and (if
present) local_manifests/ are combined together to produce a single manifest file. This
file can be stored in a Git repository for use during future 'repo init' invocations.
The -r option can be used to generate a manifest file with project revisions set to the
current commit hash. These are known as "revision locked manifests", as they don't follow
a particular branch. In this case, the 'upstream' attribute is set to the ref we were on
when the manifest was generated. The 'dest-branch' attribute is set to indicate the remote
ref to push changes to via 'repo upload'.
repo Manifest Format
A repo manifest describes the structure of a repo client; that is the directories that are
visible and where they should be obtained from with git.
The basic structure of a manifest is a bare Git repository holding a single `default.xml`
XML file in the top level directory.
Manifests are inherently version controlled, since they are kept within a Git repository.
Updates to manifests are automatically obtained by clients during `repo sync`.
[TOC]
XML File Format
A manifest XML file (e.g. `default.xml`) roughly conforms to the following DTD:
```xml <!DOCTYPE manifest [
<!ELEMENT manifest (notice?,
remote*, default?, manifest-server?, submanifest*?, remove-project*, project*,
extend-project*, repo-hooks?, superproject?, contactinfo?, include*)>
<!ELEMENT notice (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT remote (annotation*)> <!ATTLIST remote name ID #REQUIRED>
<!ATTLIST remote alias CDATA #IMPLIED> <!ATTLIST remote fetch CDATA
#REQUIRED> <!ATTLIST remote pushurl CDATA #IMPLIED> <!ATTLIST remote review
CDATA #IMPLIED> <!ATTLIST remote revision CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ELEMENT default EMPTY> <!ATTLIST default remote IDREF #IMPLIED> <!ATTLIST
default revision CDATA #IMPLIED> <!ATTLIST default dest-branch CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ATTLIST default upstream CDATA #IMPLIED> <!ATTLIST default sync-j CDATA
#IMPLIED> <!ATTLIST default sync-c CDATA #IMPLIED> <!ATTLIST default sync-s
CDATA #IMPLIED> <!ATTLIST default sync-tags CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ELEMENT manifest-server EMPTY> <!ATTLIST manifest-server url CDATA #REQUIRED>
<!ELEMENT submanifest EMPTY> <!ATTLIST submanifest name ID #REQUIRED>
<!ATTLIST submanifest remote IDREF #IMPLIED> <!ATTLIST submanifest project
CDATA #IMPLIED> <!ATTLIST submanifest manifest-name CDATA #IMPLIED> <!ATTLIST
submanifest revision CDATA #IMPLIED> <!ATTLIST submanifest path
CDATA #IMPLIED> <!ATTLIST submanifest groups CDATA #IMPLIED> <!ATTLIST
submanifest default-groups CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ELEMENT project (annotation*,
project*, copyfile*, linkfile*)>
<!ATTLIST project name
CDATA #REQUIRED>
<!ATTLIST project path
CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ATTLIST project remote
IDREF #IMPLIED>
<!ATTLIST project revision
CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ATTLIST project dest-branch CDATA #IMPLIED> <!ATTLIST project groups CDATA
#IMPLIED> <!ATTLIST project sync-c CDATA #IMPLIED> <!ATTLIST project sync-s
CDATA #IMPLIED> <!ATTLIST project sync-tags CDATA #IMPLIED> <!ATTLIST project
upstream CDATA #IMPLIED> <!ATTLIST project clone-depth CDATA #IMPLIED> <!ATTLIST
project force-path CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ELEMENT annotation EMPTY> <!ATTLIST annotation name CDATA #REQUIRED> <!ATTLIST
annotation value CDATA #REQUIRED> <!ATTLIST annotation keep CDATA "true">
<!ELEMENT copyfile EMPTY> <!ATTLIST copyfile src CDATA #REQUIRED> <!ATTLIST
copyfile dest CDATA #REQUIRED>
<!ELEMENT linkfile EMPTY> <!ATTLIST linkfile src CDATA #REQUIRED> <!ATTLIST
linkfile dest CDATA #REQUIRED>
<!ELEMENT extend-project EMPTY> <!ATTLIST extend-project name CDATA #REQUIRED>
<!ATTLIST extend-project path CDATA #IMPLIED> <!ATTLIST extend-project dest-path
CDATA #IMPLIED> <!ATTLIST extend-project groups CDATA #IMPLIED> <!ATTLIST
extend-project revision CDATA #IMPLIED> <!ATTLIST extend-project remote CDATA
#IMPLIED> <!ATTLIST extend-project dest-branch CDATA #IMPLIED> <!ATTLIST
extend-project upstream CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ELEMENT remove-project EMPTY> <!ATTLIST remove-project name CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ATTLIST remove-project path CDATA #IMPLIED> <!ATTLIST remove-project optional
CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ELEMENT repo-hooks EMPTY> <!ATTLIST repo-hooks in-project CDATA #REQUIRED>
<!ATTLIST repo-hooks enabled-list CDATA #REQUIRED>
<!ELEMENT superproject EMPTY> <!ATTLIST superproject name CDATA #REQUIRED>
<!ATTLIST superproject remote IDREF #IMPLIED> <!ATTLIST superproject revision
CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ELEMENT contactinfo EMPTY> <!ATTLIST contactinfo bugurl CDATA #REQUIRED>
<!ELEMENT include EMPTY> <!ATTLIST include name CDATA #REQUIRED> <!ATTLIST
include groups CDATA #IMPLIED> <!ATTLIST include revision CDATA #IMPLIED>
]> ```
For compatibility purposes across repo releases, all unknown elements are silently
ignored. However, repo reserves all possible names for itself for future use. If you want
to use custom elements, the `x-*` namespace is reserved for that purpose, and repo
guarantees to never allocate any corresponding names.
A description of the elements and their attributes follows.
Element manifest
The root element of the file.
Element notice
Arbitrary text that is displayed to users whenever `repo sync` finishes. The content is
simply passed through as it exists in the manifest.
Element remote
One or more remote elements may be specified. Each remote element specifies a Git URL
shared by one or more projects and (optionally) the Gerrit review server those projects
upload changes through.
Attribute `name`: A short name unique to this manifest file. The name specified here is
used as the remote name in each project's .git/config, and is therefore automatically
available to commands like `git fetch`, `git remote`, `git pull` and `git push`.
Attribute `alias`: The alias, if specified, is used to override `name` to be set as the
remote name in each project's .git/config. Its value can be duplicated while attribute
`name` has to be unique in the manifest file. This helps each project to be able to have
same remote name which actually points to different remote url.
Attribute `fetch`: The Git URL prefix for all projects which use this remote. Each
project's name is appended to this prefix to form the actual URL used to clone the
project.
Attribute `pushurl`: The Git "push" URL prefix for all projects which use this remote.
Each project's name is appended to this prefix to form the actual URL used to "git push"
the project. This attribute is optional; if not specified then "git push" will use the
same URL as the `fetch` attribute.
Attribute `review`: Hostname of the Gerrit server where reviews are uploaded to by `repo
upload`. This attribute is optional; if not specified then `repo upload` will not
function.
Attribute `revision`: Name of a Git branch (e.g. `main` or `refs/heads/main`). Remotes
with their own revision will override the default revision.
Element default
At most one default element may be specified. Its remote and revision attributes are used
when a project element does not specify its own remote or revision attribute.
Attribute `remote`: Name of a previously defined remote element. Project elements lacking
a remote attribute of their own will use this remote.
Attribute `revision`: Name of a Git branch (e.g. `main` or `refs/heads/main`). Project
elements lacking their own revision attribute will use this revision.
Attribute `dest-branch`: Name of a Git branch (e.g. `main`). Project elements not setting
their own `dest-branch` will inherit this value. If this value is not set, projects will
use `revision` by default instead.
Attribute `upstream`: Name of the Git ref in which a sha1 can be found. Used when syncing
a revision locked manifest in -c mode to avoid having to sync the entire ref space.
Project elements not setting their own `upstream` will inherit this value.
Attribute `sync-j`: Number of parallel jobs to use when synching.
Attribute `sync-c`: Set to true to only sync the given Git branch (specified in the
`revision` attribute) rather than the whole ref space. Project elements lacking a sync-c
element of their own will use this value.
Attribute `sync-s`: Set to true to also sync sub-projects.
Attribute `sync-tags`: Set to false to only sync the given Git branch (specified in the
`revision` attribute) rather than the other ref tags.
Element manifest-server
At most one manifest-server may be specified. The url attribute is used to specify the URL
of a manifest server, which is an XML RPC service.
The manifest server should implement the following RPC methods:
GetApprovedManifest(branch, target)
Return a manifest in which each project is pegged to a known good revision for the current
branch and target. This is used by repo sync when the --smart-sync option is given.
The target to use is defined by environment variables TARGET_PRODUCT and
TARGET_BUILD_VARIANT. These variables are used to create a string of the form
$TARGET_PRODUCT-$TARGET_BUILD_VARIANT, e.g. passion-userdebug. If one of those variables
or both are not present, the program will call GetApprovedManifest without the target
parameter and the manifest server should choose a reasonable default target.
GetManifest(tag)
Return a manifest in which each project is pegged to the revision at the specified tag.
This is used by repo sync when the --smart-tag option is given.
Element submanifest
One or more submanifest elements may be specified. Each element describes a single
manifest to be checked out as a child.
Attribute `name`: A unique name (within the current (sub)manifest) for this submanifest.
It acts as a default for `revision` below. The same name can be used for submanifests with
different parent (sub)manifests.
Attribute `remote`: Name of a previously defined remote element. If not supplied the
remote given by the default element is used.
Attribute `project`: The manifest project name. The project's name is appended onto its
remote's fetch URL to generate the actual URL to configure the Git remote with. The URL
gets formed as:
${remote_fetch}/${project_name}.git
where ${remote_fetch} is the remote's fetch attribute and ${project_name} is the project's
name attribute. The suffix ".git" is always appended as repo assumes the upstream is a
forest of bare Git repositories. If the project has a parent element, its name will be
prefixed by the parent's.
The project name must match the name Gerrit knows, if Gerrit is being used for code
reviews.
`project` must not be empty, and may not be an absolute path or use "." or ".." path
components. It is always interpreted relative to the remote's fetch settings, so if a
different base path is needed, declare a different remote with the new settings needed.
If not supplied the remote and project for this manifest will be used: `remote` cannot be
supplied.
Projects from a submanifest and its submanifests are added to the
submanifest::path:<path_prefix> group.
Attribute `manifest-name`: The manifest filename in the manifest project. If not supplied,
`default.xml` is used.
Attribute `revision`: Name of a Git branch (e.g. "main" or "refs/heads/main"), tag (e.g.
"refs/tags/stable"), or a commit hash. If not supplied, `name` is used.
Attribute `path`: An optional path relative to the top directory of the repo client where
the submanifest repo client top directory should be placed. If not supplied, `revision` is
used.
`path` may not be an absolute path or use "." or ".." path components.
Attribute `groups`: List of additional groups to which all projects in the included
submanifest belong. This appends and recurses, meaning all projects in submanifests carry
all parent submanifest groups. Same syntax as the corresponding element of `project`.
Attribute `default-groups`: The list of manifest groups to sync if no `--groups=`
parameter was specified at init. When that list is empty, use this list instead of
"default" as the list of groups to sync.
Element project
One or more project elements may be specified. Each element describes a single Git
repository to be cloned into the repo client workspace. You may specify Git-submodules by
creating a nested project. Git-submodules will be automatically recognized and inherit
their parent's attributes, but those may be overridden by an explicitly specified project
element.
Attribute `name`: A unique name for this project. The project's name is appended onto its
remote's fetch URL to generate the actual URL to configure the Git remote with. The URL
gets formed as:
${remote_fetch}/${project_name}.git
where ${remote_fetch} is the remote's fetch attribute and ${project_name} is the project's
name attribute. The suffix ".git" is always appended as repo assumes the upstream is a
forest of bare Git repositories. If the project has a parent element, its name will be
prefixed by the parent's.
The project name must match the name Gerrit knows, if Gerrit is being used for code
reviews.
"name" must not be empty, and may not be an absolute path or use "." or ".." path
components. It is always interpreted relative to the remote's fetch settings, so if a
different base path is needed, declare a different remote with the new settings needed.
These restrictions are not enforced for [Local Manifests].
Attribute `path`: An optional path relative to the top directory of the repo client where
the Git working directory for this project should be placed. If not supplied the project
"name" is used. If the project has a parent element, its path will be prefixed by the
parent's.
"path" may not be an absolute path or use "." or ".." path components. These restrictions
are not enforced for [Local Manifests].
If you want to place files into the root of the checkout (e.g. a README or Makefile or
another build script), use the [copyfile] or [linkfile] elements instead.
Attribute `remote`: Name of a previously defined remote element. If not supplied the
remote given by the default element is used.
Attribute `revision`: Name of the Git branch the manifest wants to track for this project.
Names can be relative to refs/heads (e.g. just "main") or absolute (e.g.
"refs/heads/main"). Tags and/or explicit SHA-1s should work in theory, but have not been
extensively tested. If not supplied the revision given by the remote element is used if
applicable, else the default element is used.
Attribute `dest-branch`: Name of a Git branch (e.g. `main`). When using `repo upload`,
changes will be submitted for code review on this branch. If unspecified both here and in
the default element, `revision` is used instead.
Attribute `groups`: List of groups to which this project belongs, whitespace or comma
separated. All projects belong to the group "all", and each project automatically belongs
to a group of its name:`name` and path:`path`. E.g. for `<project name="monkeys"
path="barrel-of"/>`, that project definition is implicitly in the following manifest
groups: default, name:monkeys, and path:barrel-of. If you place a project in the group
"notdefault", it will not be automatically downloaded by repo. If the project has a parent
element, the `name` and `path` here are the prefixed ones.
Attribute `sync-c`: Set to true to only sync the given Git branch (specified in the
`revision` attribute) rather than the whole ref space.
Attribute `sync-s`: Set to true to also sync sub-projects.
Attribute `upstream`: Name of the Git ref in which a sha1 can be found. Used when syncing
a revision locked manifest in -c mode to avoid having to sync the entire ref space.
Attribute `clone-depth`: Set the depth to use when fetching this project. If specified,
this value will override any value given to repo init with the --depth option on the
command line.
Attribute `force-path`: Set to true to force this project to create the local mirror
repository according to its `path` attribute (if supplied) rather than the `name`
attribute. This attribute only applies to the local mirrors syncing, it will be ignored
when syncing the projects in a client working directory.
Element extend-project
Modify the attributes of the named project.
This element is mostly useful in a local manifest file, to modify the attributes of an
existing project without completely replacing the existing project definition. This makes
the local manifest more robust against changes to the original manifest.
Attribute `path`: If specified, limit the change to projects checked out at the specified
path, rather than all projects with the given name.
Attribute `dest-path`: If specified, a path relative to the top directory of the repo
client where the Git working directory for this project should be placed. This is used to
move a project in the checkout by overriding the existing `path` setting.
Attribute `groups`: List of additional groups to which this project belongs. Same syntax
as the corresponding element of `project`.
Attribute `revision`: If specified, overrides the revision of the original project. Same
syntax as the corresponding element of `project`.
Attribute `remote`: If specified, overrides the remote of the original project. Same
syntax as the corresponding element of `project`.
Attribute `dest-branch`: If specified, overrides the dest-branch of the original project.
Same syntax as the corresponding element of `project`.
Attribute `upstream`: If specified, overrides the upstream of the original project. Same
syntax as the corresponding element of `project`.
Element annotation
Zero or more annotation elements may be specified as children of a project or remote
element. Each element describes a name-value pair. For projects, this name-value pair will
be exported into each project's environment during a 'forall' command, prefixed with
`REPO__`. In addition, there is an optional attribute "keep" which accepts the case
insensitive values "true" (default) or "false". This attribute determines whether or not
the annotation will be kept when exported with the manifest subcommand.
Element copyfile
Zero or more copyfile elements may be specified as children of a project element. Each
element describes a src-dest pair of files; the "src" file will be copied to the "dest"
place during `repo sync` command.
"src" is project relative, "dest" is relative to the top of the tree. Copying from paths
outside of the project or to paths outside of the repo client is not allowed.
"src" and "dest" must be files. Directories or symlinks are not allowed. Intermediate
paths must not be symlinks either.
Parent directories of "dest" will be automatically created if missing.
Element linkfile
It's just like copyfile and runs at the same time as copyfile but instead of copying it
creates a symlink.
The symlink is created at "dest" (relative to the top of the tree) and points to the path
specified by "src" which is a path in the project.
Parent directories of "dest" will be automatically created if missing.
The symlink target may be a file or directory, but it may not point outside of the repo
client.
Element remove-project
Deletes a project from the internal manifest table, possibly allowing a subsequent project
element in the same manifest file to replace the project with a different source.
This element is mostly useful in a local manifest file, where the user can remove a
project, and possibly replace it with their own definition.
The project `name` or project `path` can be used to specify the remove target meaning one
of them is required. If only name is specified, all projects with that name are removed.
If both name and path are specified, only projects with the same name and path are
removed, meaning projects with the same name but in other locations are kept.
If only path is specified, a matching project is removed regardless of its name. Logic
otherwise behaves like both are specified.
Attribute `optional`: Set to true to ignore remove-project elements with no matching
`project` element.
Element repo-hooks
NB: See the [practical documentation](./repo-hooks.md) for using repo hooks.
Only one repo-hooks element may be specified at a time. Attempting to redefine it will
fail to parse.
Attribute `in-project`: The project where the hooks are defined. The value must match the
`name` attribute (**not** the `path` attribute) of a previously defined `project` element.
Attribute `enabled-list`: List of hooks to use, whitespace or comma separated.
Element superproject
*** *Note*: This is currently a WIP. ***
NB: See the [git superprojects documentation](
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Git/Submodules_and_Superprojects) for background
information.
This element is used to specify the URL of the superproject. It has "name" and "remote" as
atrributes. Only "name" is required while the others have reasonable defaults. At most one
superproject may be specified. Attempting to redefine it will fail to parse.
Attribute `name`: A unique name for the superproject. This attribute has the same meaning
as project's name attribute. See the [element project](#element-project) for more
information.
Attribute `remote`: Name of a previously defined remote element. If not supplied the
remote given by the default element is used.
Attribute `revision`: Name of the Git branch the manifest wants to track for this
superproject. If not supplied the revision given by the remote element is used if
applicable, else the default element is used.
Element contactinfo
*** *Note*: This is currently a WIP. ***
This element is used to let manifest authors self-register contact info. It has "bugurl"
as a required atrribute. This element can be repeated, and any later entries will clobber
earlier ones. This would allow manifest authors who extend manifests to specify their own
contact info.
Attribute `bugurl`: The URL to file a bug against the manifest owner.
Element include
This element provides the capability of including another manifest file into the
originating manifest. Normal rules apply for the target manifest to include - it must be a
usable manifest on its own.
Attribute `name`: the manifest to include, specified relative to the manifest repository's
root.
"name" may not be an absolute path or use "." or ".." path components. These restrictions
are not enforced for [Local Manifests].
Attribute `groups`: List of additional groups to which all projects in the included
manifest belong. This appends and recurses, meaning all projects in included manifests
carry all parent include groups. Same syntax as the corresponding element of `project`.
Attribute `revision`: Name of a Git branch (e.g. `main` or `refs/heads/main`) default to
which all projects in the included manifest belong.
Local Manifests
Additional remotes and projects may be added through local manifest files stored in
`$TOP_DIR/.repo/local_manifests/*.xml`.
For example:
$ ls .repo/local_manifests
local_manifest.xml another_local_manifest.xml
$ cat .repo/local_manifests/local_manifest.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <manifest>
<project path="manifest"
name="tools/manifest" />
<project path="platform-manifest"
name="platform/manifest" />
</manifest>
Users may add projects to the local manifest(s) prior to a `repo sync` invocation,
instructing repo to automatically download and manage these extra projects.
Manifest files stored in `$TOP_DIR/.repo/local_manifests/*.xml` will be loaded in
alphabetical order.
Projects from local manifest files are added into local::<local manifest filename> group.
The legacy `$TOP_DIR/.repo/local_manifest.xml` path is no longer supported.
[copyfile]: #Element-copyfile [linkfile]: #Element-linkfile [Local Manifests]:
#local-manifests