BK-NEWROOT(1)

💅 BK NEWROOT 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the BitKeeper User's Manual ✨ this one's about bk newroot, and it's giving admin energy — like, main character of repository maintenance 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

bk newroot — change the identity of a repository. literally gives your repo a whole new self, no cap 👑

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bk newroot [−krandombits] [−ycomment]
bk newroot

two ways to run it, both valid, both iconic 🫶

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so bk newroot is an administrative command used to generate a new identity for a repository. it's typically used only after having repaired a repository — like, that's its whole thing, its moment, its reason for existing 💅

but listen, and this is the important part: after running bk newroot, that repository will not be able to push to or pull from its parent or any other related repository. gone. severed. the link is broken on purpose 😭 so like, know that going in, fr fr.

ngl this one's a big deal — you're literally detaching your repo from its whole family tree 🌳💀

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🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

• −kbits — specify the string of random bits used as part of the repository identity. the string must be 16 hex digits — exactly 16, not 15, not 17, don't try it 🙈
• −ycomment — specify a comment to be used for why the rootkey was changed. must be a single line — one line only bestie, no novel-length explanations, keep it cute ✨

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• bk‐id
• bk‐clone
• bk‐pull
• bk‐push
• bk‐terms

the whole friend group, honestly 💜

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🌈 CATEGORY 🌈

Admin — yep, she's in the admin category, that's the vibe 👑

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and that's the page!! ty for reading bestie 🍓 this one's from BitKeeper Inc, version 1E1, dated bk newroot(none) — like, the whole bk newroot(none) situation at the bottom of every page, iconic honestly 💖 mwah, go forth and re-root responsibly 🧚‍♀️✨