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.
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A manifest XML file (e.g. default.xml) roughly conforms to the
following DTD:
<!DOCTYPE manifest [
<!ELEMENT manifest (notice?,
remote*,
default?,
manifest-server?,
remove-project*,
project*,
extend-project*,
repo-hooks?,
include*)>
<!ELEMENT notice (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT remote EMPTY>
<!ATTLIST remote name ID #REQUIRED>
<!ATTLIST remote alias CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ATTLIST remote fetch CDATA #REQUIRED>
<!ATTLIST remote pushurl CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ATTLIST remote review CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ATTLIST remote revision CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ELEMENT default EMPTY>
<!ATTLIST default remote IDREF #IMPLIED>
<!ATTLIST default revision CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ATTLIST default dest-branch CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ATTLIST default upstream CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ATTLIST default sync-j CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ATTLIST default sync-c CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ATTLIST default sync-s CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ATTLIST default sync-tags CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ELEMENT manifest-server EMPTY>
<!ATTLIST manifest-server url CDATA #REQUIRED>
<!ELEMENT project (annotation*,
project*,
copyfile*,
linkfile*)>
<!ATTLIST project name CDATA #REQUIRED>
<!ATTLIST project path CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ATTLIST project remote IDREF #IMPLIED>
<!ATTLIST project revision CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ATTLIST project dest-branch CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ATTLIST project groups CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ATTLIST project sync-c CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ATTLIST project sync-s CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ATTLIST project sync-tags CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ATTLIST project upstream CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ATTLIST project clone-depth CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ATTLIST project force-path CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ELEMENT annotation EMPTY>
<!ATTLIST annotation name CDATA #REQUIRED>
<!ATTLIST annotation value CDATA #REQUIRED>
<!ATTLIST annotation keep CDATA "true">
<!ELEMENT copyfile EMPTY>
<!ATTLIST copyfile src CDATA #REQUIRED>
<!ATTLIST copyfile dest CDATA #REQUIRED>
<!ELEMENT linkfile EMPTY>
<!ATTLIST linkfile src CDATA #REQUIRED>
<!ATTLIST linkfile dest CDATA #REQUIRED>
<!ELEMENT extend-project EMPTY>
<!ATTLIST extend-project name CDATA #REQUIRED>
<!ATTLIST extend-project path CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ATTLIST extend-project groups CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ATTLIST extend-project revision CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ATTLIST extend-project remote CDATA #IMPLIED>
<!ELEMENT remove-project EMPTY>
<!ATTLIST remove-project name CDATA #REQUIRED>
<!ELEMENT repo-hooks EMPTY>
<!ATTLIST repo-hooks in-project CDATA #REQUIRED>
<!ATTLIST repo-hooks enabled-list CDATA #REQUIRED>
<!ELEMENT include EMPTY>
<!ATTLIST include name CDATA #REQUIRED>
]>A description of the elements and their attributes follows.
The root element of the file.
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 pushurl: The Git "push" 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 "git push" the project.
This attribute is optional; if not specified then "git push"
will use the same URL as the fetch attribute.
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.
Attribute revision: Name of a Git branch (e.g. master or
refs/heads/master). Remotes with their own revision will override
the default revision.
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.
Attribute dest-branch: Name of a Git branch (e.g. master).
Project elements not setting their own dest-branch will inherit
this value. If this value is not set, projects will use revision
by default instead.
Attribute upstream: Name of the Git ref in which a sha1
can be found. Used when syncing a revision locked manifest in
-c mode to avoid having to sync the entire ref space. Project elements
not setting their own upstream will inherit this value.
Attribute sync-j: Number of parallel jobs to use when synching.
Attribute sync-c: Set to true to only sync the given Git
branch (specified in the revision attribute) rather than the
whole ref space. Project elements lacking a sync-c element of
their own will use this value.
Attribute sync-s: Set to true to also sync sub-projects.
Attribute sync-tags: Set to false to only sync the given Git
branch (specified in the revision attribute) rather than
the other ref tags.
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. This is used by repo sync when the --smart-sync option is given.
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. This is used by repo sync when the --smart-tag option is given.
One or more project elements may be specified. Each element describes a single Git repository to be cloned into the repo client workspace. You may specify Git-submodules by creating a nested project. Git-submodules will be automatically recognized and inherit their parent's attributes, but those may be overridden by an explicitly specified project element.
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
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.
If the project has a parent element, its path will be prefixed
by the parent's.
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 remote element is used if applicable, else the default
element is used.
Attribute dest-branch: Name of a Git branch (e.g. master).
When using repo upload, changes will be submitted for code
review on this branch. If unspecified both here and in the
default element, revision is used instead.
Attribute groups: List of groups to which this project belongs,
whitespace or comma separated. All projects belong to the group
"all", and each project automatically belongs to a group of
its 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. If you place a project in the
group "notdefault", it will not be automatically downloaded by repo.
If the project has a parent element, the name and path here
are the prefixed ones.
Attribute sync-c: Set to true to only sync the given Git
branch (specified in the revision attribute) rather than the
whole ref space.
Attribute sync-s: Set to true to also sync sub-projects.
Attribute upstream: Name of the Git ref in which a sha1
can be found. Used when syncing a revision locked manifest in
-c mode to avoid having to sync the entire ref space.
Attribute clone-depth: Set the depth to use when fetching this
project. If specified, this value will override any value given
to repo init with the --depth option on the command line.
Attribute force-path: Set to true to force this project to create the
local mirror repository according to its path attribute (if supplied)
rather than the name attribute. This attribute only applies to the
local mirrors syncing, it will be ignored when syncing the projects in a
client working directory.
Modify the attributes of the named project.
This element is mostly useful in a local manifest file, to modify the attributes of an existing project without completely replacing the existing project definition. This makes the local manifest more robust against changes to the original manifest.
Attribute path: If specified, limit the change to projects checked out
at the specified path, rather than all projects with the given name.
Attribute groups: List of additional groups to which this project
belongs. Same syntax as the corresponding element of project.
Attribute revision: If specified, overrides the revision of the original
project. Same syntax as the corresponding element of project.
Attribute remote: If specified, overrides the remote of the original
project. Same syntax as the corresponding element of project.
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.
Zero or more copyfile elements may be specified as children of a
project element. Each element describes a src-dest pair of files;
the "src" file will be copied to the "dest" place during repo sync
command.
"src" is project relative, "dest" is relative to the top of the tree. Copying from paths outside of the project or to paths outside of the repo client is not allowed.
"src" and "dest" must be files. Directories or symlinks are not allowed. Intermediate paths must not be symlinks either.
Parent directories of "dest" will be automatically created if missing.
It's just like copyfile and runs at the same time as copyfile but instead of copying it creates a symlink.
The symlink is created at "dest" (relative to the top of the tree) and points to the path specified by "src" which is a path in the project.
Parent directories of "dest" will be automatically created if missing.
The symlink target may be a file or directory, but it may not point outside of the repo client.
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 a local manifest file, where the user can remove a project, and possibly replace it with their own definition.
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 its own.
Attribute name: the manifest to include, specified relative to
the manifest repository's root.
Additional remotes and projects may be added through local manifest
files stored in $TOP_DIR/.repo/local_manifests/*.xml.
For example:
$ ls .repo/local_manifests
local_manifest.xml
another_local_manifest.xml
$ cat .repo/local_manifests/local_manifest.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<manifest>
<project path="manifest"
name="tools/manifest" />
<project path="platform-manifest"
name="platform/manifest" />
</manifest>
Users may add projects to the local manifest(s) prior to a repo sync
invocation, instructing repo to automatically download and manage
these extra projects.
Manifest files stored in $TOP_DIR/.repo/local_manifests/*.xml will
be loaded in alphabetical order.
Additional remotes and projects may also be added through a local
manifest, stored in $TOP_DIR/.repo/local_manifest.xml. This method
is deprecated in favor of using multiple manifest files as mentioned
above.
If $TOP_DIR/.repo/local_manifest.xml exists, it will be loaded before
any manifest files stored in $TOP_DIR/.repo/local_manifests/*.xml.