REPO(1)

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💖 REPO(1) — the repo checkout era 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the repo manual page and specifically the one for repo checkout. it lives in the Repo Manual corner of your man pages and it's here to hand you a whole checkout glow-up. no cap. ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

repo checkout <branchname> [<project>...]

that's the whole vibe. a branch name, and optionally some projects. slay. 💅

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Summary

Checkout a branch for development. it's giving "i'm about to write code and i need my branch, actually." 🦋

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -h, --help — show this help message and exit. the classic. the icon. press it when you're lost. 🫶
  • -j JOBS, --jobs=JOBS — number of jobs to run in parallel. default: based on number of CPU cores, because your machine knows itself better than you do. multitasking main character energy. 👑

📝 Logging options

  • -v, --verbose — show all output. every last crumb. the way that i need to see EVERYTHING. 😭
  • -q, --quiet — only show errors. silent treatment, but make it productive. 🤫

🌈 Multi-manifest options

  • --outer-manifest — operate starting at the outermost manifest. go to the very outside layer, like peeling an onion but for manifests. 🧅
  • --no-outer-manifest — do not operate on outer manifests. hands off the outer ones, fr fr.
  • --this-manifest-only — only operate on this (sub)manifest. just this one. nobody else invited. 🙈
  • --no-this-manifest-only, --all-manifests — operate on this manifest and its submanifests. the whole friend group, no one left out. 🎉
run repo help checkout to view the detailed manual. (yes, a manual for the manual. iconic.)

💜 DETAILS 💜

the repo checkout command checks out an existing branch that was previously created by repo start. so like, if repo start is the one who set the whole thing up, repo checkout is the one who walks in and says "i'm here, where's my branch." 💖

the command is equivalent to:

repo forall [<project>...] -c git checkout <branchname>

literally the same thing, just typed with fewer keystrokes. efficiency ate. 🔥

and that's the whole page bestie!! this one is from the repo checkout manual, June 2026 edition, and it's filed under REPO(1) — so if you ever need to find it again, that's where it lives. go forth and check out your branches, you absolute legend. 💅✨🦋🌸🎀💖

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