HOWTO‐bkd(none)

💅 HOWTO‐bkd — howto: configuring the BitKeeper daemon

okay bestie, welcome to the BitKeeper User's Manual, and specifically the bk Howto‐bkd page — the one that shows you how to configure the bk daemon 🎀

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So here's the vibe: this page is all examples of how to configure the bk daemon for both read-only and read-write modes. We'll show you how to export all the repositories on a system in both read-write and read-only mode, and we'll also show you how to export just one specific repository in read-write and read-only mode. iconic, right? 🌈

# Configure BitKeeper daemon for read‐only
# access for all repositories
bk bkd -d -xpush

# Configure BitKeeper daemon for read‐write
# access for all repositories
bk bkd -d

# Access a specific repository when multiple
# ones are being exported
bk clone bk://host.domain/some/dir/master ~/my_tree

# Configure a specific BitKeeper repository
# for read‐write access
cd /master/repository
bk bkd -d -p6666 -xcd

# Configure a specific BitKeeper repository
# for read‐only access
cd /master/repository
bk bkd -d -p4444 -xcd -xpush

# Access a repository bound to a specific port
bk clone bk://host.domain:6666 ~/my_tree

lowkey obsessed with how clean that is 💅 like, -d gets you read-write everywhere, toss in -xpush and it's read-only, and if you're only exporting one repo you cd into it and hit it with -xcd plus a port. chef's kiss.

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🦋 the BK/Web moment

With the BK/Web feature, you can use a web browser to access the bkd web interface. fr fr, a browser 🫶 so for example, to access the bkd above listening on port 6666, you can just use the URL:

http://host.domain:6666/

not me opening a terminal-adjacent thing in a browser tab 😭 it's giving main character energy tbh.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• bk-bkd
• bk-Howto

go read those next bestie, iykyk 💖

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🌸 CATEGORY 🌸

Overview

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ok that's the whole page, no cap, every flag and port and URL accounted for 💀✨

and that's a wrap! this was BitKeeper Inc, version 1E1, dated HOWTO‐bkd(none) — mwah, slay, periodt 🎀💜