BK-OBSCURE(1)

🎀 bk obscure(none) 🎀

okay bestie, this is the BitKeeper User’s Manual page for bk obscure(none) — and the vibe is “mysterious little gremlin command,” because that’s literally what it does. 🕵️‍♀️💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

bk obscure — obscure BitKeeper file comments and contents. that’s the whole name, no cap. 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bk obscure

that’s it. no flags, no arguments. iconic minimalism. 👑

💀 WARNING 💀

bestie. This command will destroy your repository; do it if and only if the repository in question is an unneeded copy. like, for real fr fr — not your main character repository. 🚨😭

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

The bk obscure command is typically used if you wish to send a repository to BitKeeper for performance analysis and/or debugging. ✨

All data files have their contents and comments obscured. The intent is that the obscuring of the repository data will result in a repository which has the same size, shape, number of deltas, number of changesets, etc., but with different data. 🎀

The current method used to obscure the data is to sort each line of data alphabetically, i.e.,

Please obscure me

turns into

ussromleeeecbaP

The obscuring is currently fairly simple and is theoretically reversible with enough compute power so this is not a means to encrypt a repository. 🔓💀 like, do not use this as your encryption era, bestie.

🔮 SEE ALSO 🔮

• bk‐admin — the other page to check out, iykyk. 🫶

🌈 CATEGORY 🌈

Utility. simple, useful, slay. 💅

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mwah 💋 — source/version/footer bits: BitKeeper Inc, 1E1, and bk obscure(none). bye bestie, go obscure responsibly — or don’t, because: destruction warning above. 🎀✨