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author Jeff Hammel <jhammel@mozilla.com>
date Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:55:15 -0800
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1 fetch 1 fetch
2 =========== 2 =====
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4 fetch stuff from the interwebs 4 fetch stuff from the interwebs
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6 Format 7 Format
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9 `fetch` fetches from a manifest of the format 10 `fetch` fetches from a manifest of the format::
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11 [URL] [Destination] [Type] 12 [URL] [Destination] [Type]
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14 A URL can contain a hash tag (e.g. http://example.com/foo#bar/fleem)
15 which is used to extract the subdirectories from a multi-directory
16 resource.
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18 The `Type` of the resource is used to dispatch to the included
19 Fetchers that take care of fetching the object.
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22 Fetchers
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25 `fetch` includes several objects for fetching resources::
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27 file : fetch a single file
28 tar : fetch and extract a tarball
29 hg : checkout a mercurial repository
30 git : checkout a git repository
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32 The `file` fetcher cannot have a hash tag subpath since it is a single
33 resource.
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35 Though `fetch` has a set of fetchers included, you can pass an
36 arbitrary list into `fetch.Fetch`'s constructor.
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39 Version Control
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42 The `hg` and the `git` fetchers fetch from version control systems and
43 have additional options.
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16 Jeff Hammel 48 Jeff Hammel