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gerrit/git-repo/6586efe79ab12e59466b67eaf59d19002abdf268
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6586efe79ab12e59466b67eaf59d19002abdf268
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Brian Gan <brgan@google.com>
Thu Jun 25 20:48:34 2026 +0000
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gerrit-scoped@luci-project-accounts.iam.gserviceaccount.com <gerrit-scoped@luci-project-accounts.iam.gserviceaccount.com>
Thu Jun 25 16:07:53 2026 -0700
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4fb5ad140585ee2f1e3eac86e8be8387d23d6b8c
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3af9e2f1462a13a3e344b4fd2e6ed6c4f5403f72 [diff]
man: disable line wrapping

When help2man runs the repo script to generate man pages, the argparse
module relies on the COLUMNS environment variable to wrap help text.
This wrapping can cause URLs and descriptions to be awkwardly broken
across lines. Setting COLUMNS="10000" prevents argparse from wrapping
the output, keeping URLs intact in the generated man pages.

Additionally, this fixes a broken git documentation URL fragment for
--partial-clone in the repo script.

Bug: 295374161
Change-Id: I0c79f37fbfe2bebe71ff90585f2e5e1f88ea33cb
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/git-repo/+/601482
Tested-by: Brian Gan <brgan@google.com>
Commit-Queue: Brian Gan <brgan@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Mak <gavinmak@google.com>
23 files changed
tree: 4fb5ad140585ee2f1e3eac86e8be8387d23d6b8c
  1. .github/
  2. agents/
  3. docs/
  4. hooks/
  5. man/
  6. release/
  7. subcmds/
  8. tests/
  9. .flake8
  10. .gitattributes
  11. .gitignore
  12. .gitreview
  13. .mailmap
  14. .project
  15. .pydevproject
  16. cipd_manifest.txt
  17. cipd_manifest.versions
  18. color.py
  19. command.py
  20. completion.bash
  21. completion.zsh
  22. constraints.txt
  23. CONTRIBUTING.md
  24. editor.py
  25. error.py
  26. event_log.py
  27. fetch.py
  28. git_command.py
  29. git_config.py
  30. git_refs.py
  31. git_ssh
  32. git_superproject.py
  33. git_trace2_event_log.py
  34. git_trace2_event_log_base.py
  35. hooks.py
  36. LICENSE
  37. main.py
  38. MANIFEST.in
  39. manifest_xml.py
  40. pager.py
  41. platform_utils.py
  42. platform_utils_win32.py
  43. progress.py
  44. project.py
  45. pyproject.toml
  46. README.md
  47. repo
  48. repo_logging.py
  49. repo_trace.py
  50. requirements.json
  51. run_tests
  52. run_tests.vpython3
  53. run_tests.vpython3.8
  54. setup.py
  55. ssh.py
  56. wrapper.py
README.md

repo

Repo is a tool built on top of Git. Repo helps manage many Git repositories, does the uploads to revision control systems, and automates parts of the development workflow. Repo is not meant to replace Git, only to make it easier to work with Git. The repo command is an executable Python script that you can put anywhere in your path.

Contact

Please use the repo-discuss mailing list or issue tracker for questions.

You can file a new bug report under the “repo” component.

Please do not e-mail individual developers for support. They do not have the bandwidth for it, and often times questions have already been asked on repo-discuss or bugs posted to the issue tracker. So please search those sites first.

Install

Many distros include repo, so you might be able to install from there.

# Debian/Ubuntu.
$ sudo apt-get install repo

# Gentoo.
$ sudo emerge dev-vcs/repo

You can install it manually as well as it's a single script.

$ mkdir -p ~/.bin
$ PATH="${HOME}/.bin:${PATH}"
$ curl https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ~/.bin/repo
$ chmod a+rx ~/.bin/repo

Shell Completion

Repo includes completion scripts for Bash and Zsh.

Bash

To enable completion in Bash, source completion.bash in your ~/.bashrc:

source /path/to/git-repo/completion.bash

Zsh

To enable completion in Zsh, you can either:

  1. Copy or symlink completion.zsh to a file named _repo in a directory in your $fpath:

    mkdir -p ~/.zsh/completion
# You can copy the file:
cp /path/to/git-repo/completion.zsh ~/.zsh/completion/_repo
# Or symlink it:
ln -s /path/to/git-repo/completion.zsh ~/.zsh/completion/_repo

    Then add that directory to your fpath in ~/.zshrc before compinit:

    fpath=(~/.zsh/completion $fpath)
autoload -Uz compinit
compinit

  2. Or source the file directly and call compdef in your ~/.zshrc:

    source /path/to/git-repo/completion.zsh
compdef _repo repo