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by awinter-py 3541 days ago
Cool but 'repo' is a really hard name to search.

There's already a tool by this name and they have the same problem.

https://code.google.com/p/git-repo/

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Well, first the name really is `git-repo` not `repo`, and as nobody has really heard of it yet, the pypi package is already on first page of go, and second page of google.

I hope that if people like the tool, it's going to be easier to find.

Of course, I'm not really obsessed with the name (as anyway the tool is designed so the user does not type git-repo everyday ). So if someone comes up with a name that's great that can be better, I'm all ears!

About the fact that google has that other tool… Well they really are not much projects using it, beyond the google projects, and the tool really is called `repo`, not `git-repo`, so the name clash is not really there.

I think harrow uses it for their builds
This a thousand times. I was initially confused this was a fork of Google's/Android repo (gag).

https://code.google.com/p/git-repo

https://source.android.com/source/using-repo.html

I wish repo were the worst thing about building android