NAME

       tailor - tool to keep in sync various kinds of repository

DESCRIPTION

   Usage:
              1. tailor [options] [project ...]  2. tailor test [--help] [...]

OPTIONS

       -D, --debug
              Print  each  executed  command.  This  also keeps temporary files with the upstream
              logs, that are otherwise removed after use.

       -v, --verbose
              Be verbose, echoing the changelog of each applied changeset to stdout.

       -c CONFNAME, --configfile=CONFNAME
              Centralized storage of projects info.  With this  option  and  no  other  arguments
              tailor will update every project found in the config file.

       --encoding=CHARSET
              Force  the  output  encoding to given CHARSET, rather then using the user's default
              settings specified in the environment.

       --version
              show program's version number and exit

       -h, --help
              show this help message and exit

              Bootstrap options:

       -s VC-KIND, --source-kind=VC-KIND
              Select the backend for the upstream source  version  control  VC-KIND.  Default  is
              'cvs'.

       -t VC-KIND, --target-kind=VC-KIND
              Select VC-KIND as backend for the shadow repository, with 'darcs' as default.

       -R REPOS, --repository=REPOS, --source-repository=REPOS
              Specify  the  upstream  repository,  from where bootstrap will checkout the module.
              REPOS syntax depends on the source version control kind.

       -m MODULE, --module=MODULE, --source-module=MODULE
              Specify the module to checkout at bootstrap time. This has different meanings under
              the  various  upstream  systems:  with CVS it indicates the module, while under SVN
              it's the prefix of the tree you want and must begin with a slash. Since  it's  used
              in  the  description of the target repository, you may want to give it a value with
              darcs too, even though it is otherwise ignored.

       -r REV, --revision=REV, --start-revision=REV
              Specify the revision bootstrap should checkout.  REV must be a valid 'name'  for  a
              revision  in  the  upstream version control kind. For CVS it may be either a branch
              name, a timestamp or both separated by a space, and timestamp may be  'INITIAL'  to
              denote  the  beginning  of  time  for  the  given branch. Under Darcs, INITIAL is a
              shortcut for the name of the first patch in the upstream repository,  otherwise  it
              is interpreted as the name of a tag. Under Subversion, 'INITIAL' is the first patch
              that touches given repos/module, otherwise it must be an integer  revision  number.
              'HEAD' means the latest version in all backends.

       -T REPOS, --target-repository=REPOS
              Specify  the  target  repository, the one that will receive the patches coming from
              the source one.

       -M MODULE, --target-module=MODULE
              Specify the module on the target repository that will actually contain the upstream
              source tree.

       --subdir=DIR
              Force  the  subdirectory  where  the checkout will happen, by default it's the tail
              part of the module name.

              Update options:

       -F FORMAT, --patch-name-format=FORMAT
              Specify the prototype that will be used to compute the patch name.   The  prototype
              may  contain  %(keyword)s  such  as  'author',  'date', 'revision', 'firstlogline',
              'remaininglog'. It defaults to 'Tailorized "%(revision)s"'; setting it to the empty
              string means that tailor will simply use the original changelog.

       -1, --remove-first-log-line
              Remove  the  first  line  of  the upstream changelog. This is intended to pair with
              --patch-name-format, when using its 'firstlogline' variable to build  the  name  of
              the patch.

       -N, --refill-changelogs
              Refill every changelog, useful when upstream logs are not uniform.

              VC specific options:

       --use-propset
              Use  'svn  propset'  to  set  the  real  date and author of each commit, instead of
              appending these information to the changelog. This requires some tweaks on the  SVN
              repository to enable revision propchanges.

       --ignore-arch-ids
              Ignore .arch-ids directories when using a tla source.

SEE ALSO

       The  syntax  for  tailor's  configuration file format and a good number of examples are in
       tailor's   README    file,    which    on    Debian    systems    can    be    found    in
       /usr/share/doc/tailor/README.rst.gz

AUTHOR

       tailor was written by Lele Gaifax <lele@nautilus.homeip.net>.

       This  manual  page  was written by Vincent Danjean <vdanjean@debian.org>, with the help of
       help2man for the Debian project (but may be used by others).