REPO(1)

💖 REPO(1) — the repo manual, but make it a group chat 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the repo manual page, section 1 🎀 this one's all about repo start, and honestly? it's giving main character energy. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

repo — repo start — manual page for repo start 💅

like yes, the title is technically REPO(1) and the manual is the Repo Manual, but the whole vibe here is repo start, so that's what we're doing 🌸

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🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

repo start <newbranchname> [--all | <project>...]

that's the whole shape of it, no cap ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Summary 💫

Start a new branch for development 🔥 that's it, that's the function, and she ate 💅

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

okay this is the part where we go through EVERY single one, because we do not skip, we do not summarise, we are thorough queens 👑

• -h, --help — show this help message and exit 💖 (the classic "help me bestie" flag)
• -j JOBS, --jobs=JOBS — number of jobs to run in parallel (default: based on number of CPU cores) ⚡ lowkey it just counts your cores and does the math for you
• --all — begin branch in all projects 🌈 every single one, no project left behind
• -r REVISION, --rev=REVISION, --revision=REVISION — point branch at this revision instead of upstream 🎯 (three whole spellings, she's flexible like that)
• --head, --HEAD — abbreviation for --rev HEAD 💫 shorthand queen

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📝 Logging options:

• -v, --verbose — show all output 👀 every little crumb
• -q, --quiet — only show errors 🤫 silence is golden, unless something breaks

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🧚 Multi-manifest options:

• --outer-manifest — operate starting at the outermost manifest 🌍 start from the outside in
• --no-outer-manifest — do not operate on outer manifests 🚫🙈 nope, not touching those
• --this-manifest-only — only operate on this (sub)manifest 🎯 just this one, thanks
• --no-this-manifest-only, --all-manifests — operate on this manifest and its submanifests 💖 both of them, together, as a treat

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Run repo help start to view the detailed manual 📖 (iykyk, the deep lore is in there)

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💀 DETAILS 💀

'repo start' begins a new branch of development, starting from the revision specified in the manifest ✨ so like, new branch, but she already knows where she's coming from. iconic behaviour, fr fr 🫶

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀 this was the repo manual, repo start section, from June 2026, at section 1 of the manual — REPO(1), as always 💅 mwah, go start a branch, you've got this 🌟💖