debcheckout

SYNOPSIS
       debcheckout [OPTIONS] PACKAGE [DESTDIR]
       debcheckout [OPTIONS] REPOSITORY_URL [DESTDIR]
       debcheckout --help

DESCRIPTION
       debcheckout retrieves the information about the Version Control System
       used to maintain a given Debian package (the PACKAGE argument), and
       then checks out the latest (potentially unreleased) version of the
       package from its repository.  By default the repository is checked out
       to the PACKAGE directory; this can be overridden by providing the
       DESTDIR argument.

       The information about where the repository is available is expected to
       be found in Vcs-* fields available in the source package record. For
       example, the vim package exposes such information with a field like
       Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-vim/vim.git, you can see it by
       grepping through "apt-cache showsrc vim".

       If more than one source package record containing Vcs-* fields is
       available, debcheckout will select the record with the highest version
       number.  Alternatively, a particular version may be selected from those
       available by specifying the package name as PACKAGE=VERSION.

       If you already know the URL of a given repository you can invoke
       debcheckout directly on it, but you will probably need to pass the
       appropriate -t flag. That is, some heuristics are in use to guess the
       repository type from the URL; if they fail, you might want to override
       the guessed type using -t.

       The currently supported version control systems are: arch, bzr, cvs,
       darcs, git, hg, svn.

OPTIONS
       GENERAL OPTIONS

       -a, --auth
           Work in authenticated mode; this means that for known repositories
           (mainly those hosted on http://alioth.debian.org) URL rewriting is
           attempted before checking out, to ensure that the repository can be
           committed to. For example, for subversion repositories hosted on
           alioth this means that svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/... will be used
           instead of svn://svn.debian.org/....

       -d, --details
           Only print a list of detailed information about the package
           repository, without checking it out; the output format is a list of
           fields, each field being a pair of TAB-separated field name and
           field value. The actual fields depend on the repository type. This
           action might require a network connection to the remote repository.

           Also see -p. This option and -p are mutually exclusive.

           Override the repository type (which defaults to some heuristics
           based on the URL or, in case of heuristic failure, the fallback
           "svn"); should be one of the currently supported repository types.

       -u USERNAME, --user USERNAME
           Specify the login name to be used in authenticated mode (see -a).
           This option implies -a: you don't need to specify both.

       -f, --file
           Specify that the named file should be extracted from the repository
           and placed in the destination directory. May be used more than once
           to extract mutliple files.

       VCS-SPECIFIC OPTIONS

       GIT-SPECIFIC OPTIONS

       --git-track BRANCHES
           Specify a list of remote branches which will be set up for tracking
           (as in git branch --track, see git-branch(1)) after the remote GIT
           repository has been cloned. The list should be given as a space-
           separated list of branch names.

           As a shorthand, the string "*" can be given to require tracking of
           all remote branches.

CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
       The two configuration files /etc/devscripts.conf and ~/.devscripts are
       sourced by a shell in that order to set configuration variables.
       Command line options can be used to override configuration file
       settings. Environment variable settings are ignored for this purpose.
       The currently recognised variables are:

       DEBCHECKOUT_AUTH_URLS
           This variable should be a space separated list of Perl regular
           expressions and replacement texts, which must come in pairs: REGEXP
           TEXT REGEXP TEXT ... and so on. Each pair denotes a substitution
           which is applied to repository URLs if other built-in means of
           building URLs for authenticated mode (see -a) have failed.

           References to matching substrings in the replacement texts are
           allowed as usual in Perl by the means of $1, $2, ... and so on.

           Using this setting users can specify how to enable authenticated
           mode for repositories hosted on non well-known machines.

           Here is a sample snippet suitable for the configuration files:

            DEBCHECKOUT_AUTH_URLS='
             ^\w+://(svn\.example\.com)/(.*)    svn+ssh://$1/srv/svn/$2
             ^\w+://(git\.example\.com)/(.*)    git+ssh://$1/home/git/$2
            '

           Note that whitespace is not allowed in either regexps or



Debian Utilities                  2010-03-26                    DEBCHECKOUT(1)