Brian Gan c2c330ba4a project: report why refreshing the index failed
"repo status" aborts the whole tree when one project fails, without
saying why. The three callers that refresh the index stat cache pass -q,
which suppresses git's diagnosis when it cannot create the index lock;
git then exits 128 with both streams empty. A stale lock, a permissions
problem on the gitdir and a full disk all reach that same silent exit,
yet each needs a different remedy.

Route the three identical call sites through one helper that keeps -q
for the refresh itself. When that fails, it repeats the command without
-q to obtain git's diagnosis. The command still fails, which is correct,
but the user is now told why.

Keeping -q on the common path matters: without it git exits 1 whenever
paths hold uncommitted changes, which would report a failure to
telemetry for every modified project, even if we treat it as benign in
the code. The retry accepts that 1, since --unmerged makes git skip
conflicted paths rather than count them, so nothing else yields it.

The similar call in subcmds/sync.py is unchanged: it passes different
flags, without --unmerged, so exit 1 cannot be assumed benign there.

Bug: 560289756
Change-Id: I2e1024c84454f86076081f2d7f155728b1aa35c6
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/git-repo/+/630641
Tested-by: Brian Gan <brgan@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Mak <gavinmak@google.com>
Commit-Queue: Brian Gan <brgan@google.com>
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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
    
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