This is E.S.R.Labs Repo - just like Google Repo but this one also runs under Microsoft Windows. For more information, see Version Control with Repo and Git.

Repo is a repository management tool that Google built on top of Git. Repo unifies many Git repositories when necessary, does the uploads to a revision control system, and automates parts of the development workflow. Repo is not meant to replace Git, only to make it easier to work with Git in the context of multiple repositories. The repo command is an executable Python script that you can put anywhere in your path. In working with the source files, you will use Repo for across-network operations. For example, with a single Repo command you can download files from multiple repositories into your local working directory.

• If you are a member of the Administrators group you have to turn off User Access Control (UAC) and then restart the computer.

• Otherwise you have to adjust your user rights to get SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege priviledges. The editrights tools is provided as part of git-repo for Microsoft Windows.

• Highly experimental (do not use except for developing this feature!): If you prefer to not use symbolic links but junctions for folders and hardlinks for files instead, you have to set the following in your ~/.gitconfig:

    [portable]
        windowsNoSymlinks = true
  

  This will not require to set the the priviledges as described above.

  Known issue: Hard links are destroyed by git for example when you delete a branch (breaks .git/config). This will destroy the project workspace!

• Download Git (http://git-scm.com/downloads)
• Add Git to your path environment variable: e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\cmd;
• Add MinGW to your path environment variable: e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin;

• Download Python 2.7+ (https://www.python.org/downloads/)
• Add Python to your path environment variable: e.g. C:\Python27;
• Note: Python 3.x is supported on an experimental bases by git-repo

md %USERPROFILE%\bin
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/esrlabs/git-repo/stable/repo > %USERPROFILE%/bin/repo
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/esrlabs/git-repo/stable/repo.cmd > %USERPROFILE%/bin/repo.cmd

mkdir ~/bin
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/esrlabs/git-repo/stable/repo > ~/bin/repo
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/esrlabs/git-repo/stable/repo.cmd > ~/bin/repo.cmd

• Add Repo to your path environment variable: %USERPROFILE%\bin;
• Create a HOME environment variable that points to %USERPROFILE% (necessary for OpenSSH to find its .ssh directory).
• Create a GIT_EDITOR environment variable that has an editor executable as value. For this, first add the home directory of the editor executable to the path environment variable. GIT_EDITOR can than be set to "notepad++.exe", "gvim.exe", for example.

sudo apt-get install git-core
sudo apt-get install python

$ mkdir ~/bin
$ PATH=~/bin:$PATH
$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/esrlabs/git-repo/stable/repo > ~/bin/repo
$ chmod a+x ~/bin/repo

For more detailed instructions regarding git-repo usage, please visit git-repo.

The pager which is used for repo status is set per default to less which is not capable of parsing color codes on Windows. This can be fixed by setting the default pager to more. This can be done by

git config --global core.pager more

. Alternativly, the environment variable GIT_PAGER can be set to more.

If there is a warning at the beginning of the output which reads states that GPG is not available

warning: gpg (GnuPG) is not available.
warning: Installing it is strongly encouraged.

you have to add gpg.exe to your PATH variable. The executable can be found in your Git installation folder $GIT\usr\bin. When you are using Git Bash, the $Git\usr\bin folder is already added to your PATH.

• Added Windows executable repo.cmd
• Replacing usage of fcntl with sockets for Windows
• Handling pager and coloring with subprocesses and redirects of sysin, sysout and syserr on Windows
• Using mklink to create symbolic links on Windows (alternative: use junctions and hardlinks by setting portable.windowsNoSymlinks = true in ~/.gitconfig)
• fixed some file handling issues / differences

• Added push.py sub command to upload and bypass the code review system.
• Added interactive workflow test