init: allow REPO_REV/--repo-rev to specify commits/tags

While the help/usage suggested that revisions would work, they never
actually did, and just throw confusing errors.  Now that we warn if
the checkout isn't tracking a branch, allow people to specify commits
or tags explicitly.  Hopefully our nags will be sufficient to keep
most people on the right path.

Bug: https://crbug.com/gerrit/11045
Change-Id: I6ea32c677912185f55ab20faaa23c6c0a4c483b3
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/git-repo/+/259492
Tested-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrn@google.com>
2 files changed
tree: 3bf1cac8e36d3ae01112b3bf481deb350fce1759
  1. .github/
  2. docs/
  3. hooks/
  4. release/
  5. subcmds/
  6. tests/
  7. .flake8
  8. .gitattributes
  9. .gitignore
  10. .mailmap
  11. .project
  12. .pydevproject
  13. color.py
  14. command.py
  15. editor.py
  16. error.py
  17. event_log.py
  18. git_command.py
  19. git_config.py
  20. git_refs.py
  21. git_ssh
  22. gitc_utils.py
  23. LICENSE
  24. main.py
  25. MANIFEST.in
  26. manifest_xml.py
  27. pager.py
  28. platform_utils.py
  29. platform_utils_win32.py
  30. progress.py
  31. project.py
  32. pyversion.py
  33. README.md
  34. repo
  35. repo_trace.py
  36. run_tests
  37. setup.py
  38. SUBMITTING_PATCHES.md
  39. tox.ini
  40. 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