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`. XML File Format --------------- A manifest XML file (e.g. 'default.xml') roughly conforms to the following DTD: ]> A description of the elements and their attributes follows. Element manifest ---------------- The root element of the file. 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 `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. 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. `master` or `refs/heads/master`). Project elements lacking their own revision attribute will use this revision. 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. 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. 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. 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. The project name must match the name Gerrit knows, if Gerrit is being used for code reviews. 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. 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 "master") or absolute (e.g. "refs/heads/master"). Tags and/or explicit SHA-1s should work in theory, but have not been extensively tested. If not supplied the revision given by the default element is used. Attribute `groups`: List of groups to which this project belongs, whitespace or comma separated. All projects belong to the group "default", and each project automatically belongs to a group of it's name:`name` and path:`path`. E.g. for , that project definition is implicitly in the following manifest groups: default, name:monkeys, and path:barrel-of. Element annotation ------------------ Zero or more annotation elements may be specified as children of a project element. Each element describes a name-value pair that 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 remove-project ---------------------- Deletes the named 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 the local_manifest.xml, where the user can remove a project, and possibly replace it with their own definition. 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 it's own. Attribute `name`; the manifest to include, specified relative to the manifest repositories root. Local Manifest ============== Additional remotes and projects may be added through a local manifest, stored in `$TOP_DIR/.repo/local_manifest.xml`. For example: $ cat .repo/local_manifest.xml Users may add projects to the local manifest prior to a `repo sync` invocation, instructing repo to automatically download and manage these extra projects.