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Name
targit-clone —
a helper program for accessing TarGit repositories on sites like
Umbrellix.net
This manual page describes the invokation of
targit-clone
Invokation
targit-clone url
[target-dir]
Description
targit-clone is a helper program for accessing
"TarGit" repositories, which are bare Git repositories rolled into a
tarball, compressed with zstandard (support for other compression algorithms,
by command-line option, forthcoming), and served through a httpd, preferably
over https.
Options
None yet. It is planned that we will have an option to verify hashes (like sha256, etc).Process
targit-clone
checks that target-dir (or a default) does not exist. If it does, it aborts. Then,
targit-clone downloads url, then extracts it to
a variant of target-dir (in default of which, it generates one from the
current directory and the filename of url) which has been permuted to a
temporary name. Upon apparently-successful extraction, it then creates another
variant of target-dir, and executes `git clone` from the first variant to the
second. Upon apparent success of that operation,
targit-clone moves the second temporary target
directory to the target-dir and exits.
See also
- curl(1)
- is preferred over the following due to its licence.
- wget(1)
- is preferred over the following due to its behavior when using fully qualified domains.
- fetch(1)
- is accepted because it comes by default with FreeBSD and HardenedBSD
- zstd(1)
- used to decompress TarGit repositories
- tar(1)
- used to unwrap TarGit repositories
- git-clone(1)
- used to check out TarGit repositories
| October 9, 2022 | FreeBSD 13.1-STABLE-HBSD |