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Creating local branches with Repo

We've started using Repo (described here: https://source.android.com/source/developing.html) to manage our set of git repositories. After doing init and sync, all the repositories have detached HEADs.

When the manifest version of a repository is a branch, I would like to automatically create a local branch tracking the remote one, for all git repositories in the manifest. Is that possible?

Solution

  • yes use the repo forall command. Look at repo help forall for more information.

    for more info see https://source.android.com/source/using-repo.html#forall

    If you want to specify the manifest revisions exactly (these will generally be the branch names specified in the manifest) but manifests can contain SHAs as well.

    repo forall -c 'git branch new_branch $REPO_RREV'