This is a wrapper around cp(1) and merge(1) which allows ports hackers using the unofficial openbsd-wip tree to work on their ports in isolation of the rest of the git tree. This means other people's work can not interfere with your own (unless you want it to).

• You need Python-2.7.
• In /usr/ports you have a checkout of the official ports tree from CVS.
• In /usr/ports/openbsd-wip you have a git checkout of the unofficial WIP ports tree (https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/).
• /usr/ports/mystuff is your personal "sandbox" maintained by owip.py. You will probably want to add this to your PORTSDIRPATH in /etc/mk.conf. Eg. PORTSDIR_PATH=${PORTSDIR}/mystuff:${PORTSDIR}
• /usr/ports/mystuff/.owip contains state for owip.py in the form of checkout-time backups of ports (so that merge(1) can work) and an sqlite3 database.

The basic idea is that you can work on either existing or new ports in your own isolated sandbox (/usr/ports/mystuff) and merge the results back into your openbsd-wip git checkout.

When you want to work on a new port, you would run:

    owip.py new <pkgpath>

Where <pkgpath> would be of the form category/port. This copys a skeleton port into your sandbox.

When you want to work on an existing port, you would run:

    owip.py co <tree> <pkgpath>

Where <pkgpath> would be of the form category/port and <tree> is either main or wip depending upon where the port should come from (/usr/ports/<pkgpath> or /usr/ports/openbsd-wip/<pkgpath> respectively).

You may have as many ports as is required in your sandbox at one time. To see what you have checked out into your sandbox (and the status of your checkouts), run:

    owip.py status

Once you want to commit your work to the openbsd-wip repo:

    owip.py ci <pkgpath>

If all went well, then you can continue to use git to add new files and commit changes in your openbsd-wip checkout in /usr/ports/openbsd-wip/<pkgpath>.

If on the other hand a merge conflict occurs, then you will be guided through conflict resolution. After you have manually merged conflicts, you run:

    owip.py resolved <pkgpath>

The only remaining command is the 'discard' command which discards a port in your sandbox without merging changes back into openbsd-wip. This is useful when you are just testing other people's diffs from the mailing list, for example.