NAME

       repotool - query or manipulate a CVS, Subversion, git, bzr, hg, or darcs repository in a
       uniform way

SYNOPSIS

       repotool [action] [URL-or-dir]

DESCRIPTION

       repotool is a script wrapper around repository operations that differ by version-control
       system. It is little use by itself, existing mainly to generate and simplify a conversion
       makefile usable with reposurgeon(1).

       Not all actions are supported on all systems. You will get an error message and a return
       value of 1 when attempting an unsupported action.

       The "initialize" option takes a project name (and, optionally, following source and target
       VCCS types) and generates a Makefile that will sequence various steps of a repository
       conversion. It also generates stub lift and options files. This is meant to be run in an
       empty work directory, and it is an error to do 'initialize' where any of these files
       already exist. Afterwards, you will need to set some variables in the Makefile; read its
       header comment.

       The 'export' action, run from within a repository directory (within a module directory for
       CVS), dumps a copy of a CVS, Subversion, git, bzr, hg, or darcs repository to a flat
       history file readable by reposurgeon.

       The 'tags' option, run from within a repository directory (within a module directory for
       CVS), returns a list of the repository's release tags.

       The 'checkout' option checks out a working copy of the repository. It must be called from
       within the repository. It takes one required argument - the checkout directory location.
       It may take a following optional argument which is a tag or revision specification; if
       this argument is not given, the tip (most recent) mainline revision is assumed.

       The 'compare' action takes two repository directories and a revision spec (typically a tag
       name). If the revision spec is omitted, the tip of the main line of both repositories will
       be used. The selected revisions are cpmpared with diff -q -r, with noise due to
       SCCS/RCS/CVS keyword expansion ignored. You can follow the command verb with one or more
       -x options followed by basenames of paths to exclude from comparison. You can get a
       context-diff report on file digfferences with the -u option.

       The 'compare-tags' action takes two repository directories, extracts a list of tags from
       the first, then compares the repository contents at each tag in the list, generating a
       compare report for each. You can follow the command verb with one or more -x options
       followed by basenames of paths to exclude from comparison. You can get a context-diff
       report on file digfferences with the -u option.

       The 'mirror' action makes or updates a local mirror of a Subversion or CVS repo. It
       requires a single argument, either a Subversion URL or a CVS URL, or the name of a local
       mirror directory created by a previous run. The first form creates a local mirror of the
       repository in a directory named after the last segment of the URL, with the suffix
       “-mirror” (the local mirror name can be overridden by an optional) second argument. The
       second form updates the local mirror, doing an incremental fetch; just give the mirror
       directory name.

       Subversion URLs are as specified in the public documentation for those systems. CVS URLs
       must specify a host and repository path, followed by a '#', followed by a module name.

REQUIREMENTS

       The export action is a wrapper around either native export facilities or the following
       engines: cvs-fast-export(1) (for CVS), svnadmin(1) (for SVN), hg-fast-export.py(1) (for
       hg). You must have the appropriate engine in your $PATH for whatever kind of repository
       you are streaming.

SEE ALSO

       reposurgeon(1).

AUTHOR

       Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>. This tool is distributed with reposurgeon; see the
       project page at http://www.catb.org/~esr/reposurgeon.