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by baslas 2210 days ago
I have never used this tool but Google open-sourced Copybara[1]. If you look at the commits of their other open-source repositories, it seems this tool is often used.

[1] https://github.com/google/copybara

3 comments

Thanks, hadn't heard of this one.

Looks a bit heavy though for my liking but maybe they have some good ideas.

> Copybara requires you to choose one of the repositories to be the authoritative repository

Looks like it is more angled at mirroring private to public.

Disclosure: I work at Google, but not on Copybara.

I've seen Copybara used at Google in both directions: for some projects, the internal repo is the authoritative one, and for others, the external repo is authoritative.

Copybara is not prescriptive, you can go in either direction.

Came here to say that