GIT-UBUNTU-CLONE(1)

📦 version 1.2, in ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ GIT-UBUNTU-CLONE ✨

okay bestie, welcome to git-ubuntu-clone 💖 it's part of the git-ubuntu manual, and it's literally the cutest little shortcut for grabbing a Ubuntu source package repo. let's get into it 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

git ubuntu clone [--lp-user <user>] <package> [<directory>]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so the whole vibe here is: you give it just the source package name, and it clones the Ubuntu source package repository for you. that's it. that's the flex 👑

when it does that, it sets you up with a couple of remotes:

  • a remote named pkg — this one tracks branches from the importer repository (peep git-ubuntu-import for the deets 👀)
  • a remote named after the derived Launchpad user — this one tracks their personal branches 💖

and the repository you end up with? it's just a regular git(1) repository, no cap. every normal git(1) command works exactly like you'd expect. if you wanna know what to do after cloning, go look at git-clone(1) for the common operations ✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --lp-user <user> — the Launchpad user to authenticate as, for push URLs and as the default personal remote to create. if you don't specify it, the value gets pulled from git config --global gitubuntu.lpuser. and if that config value isn't set either? it literally prompts you for it 🙈
  • <package> — the name of the source package you wanna clone. the main character of this whole operation 💫
  • <directory> — the name of the new directory to clone into. if you don't specify one, it just uses a directory with the same name as <package>. convenient, honestly 🎁

💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

  • if the clone finishes successfully, git ubuntu clone exits with status 0 🎉
  • on errors, git ubuntu clone exits with a nonzero exit status 😭

🐛 REPORTING BUGS 🐛

found a bug? not the vibe. report it at https://bugs.launchpad.net/git-ubuntu and we'll sort it 💜

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

🌈 GIT-UBUNTU 🌈

this page is part of the git-ubuntu(1) suite 🦋

Git-Ubuntu 0.2 · 2017-07-19 — that's the version and the date this page was born, bestie. go clone something iconic 💅✨

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