Mercurial > hg > fetch
changeset 20:738d84b4de52
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| author | Jeff Hammel <jhammel@mozilla.com> |
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| date | Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:55:15 -0800 |
| parents | d69041957c0e |
| children | 0706968f01bb |
| files | README.txt fetch.py tests/test.py |
| diffstat | 3 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/README.txt Wed Nov 09 17:06:02 2011 -0800 +++ b/README.txt Wed Nov 09 19:55:15 2011 -0800 @@ -1,14 +1,46 @@ fetch -=========== +===== fetch stuff from the interwebs + Format ------ -`fetch` fetches from a manifest of the format +`fetch` fetches from a manifest of the format:: + + [URL] [Destination] [Type] + +A URL can contain a hash tag (e.g. http://example.com/foo#bar/fleem) +which is used to extract the subdirectories from a multi-directory +resource. + +The `Type` of the resource is used to dispatch to the included +Fetchers that take care of fetching the object. + + +Fetchers +-------- + +`fetch` includes several objects for fetching resources:: -[URL] [Destination] [Type] + file : fetch a single file + tar : fetch and extract a tarball + hg : checkout a mercurial repository + git : checkout a git repository + +The `file` fetcher cannot have a hash tag subpath since it is a single +resource. + +Though `fetch` has a set of fetchers included, you can pass an +arbitrary list into `fetch.Fetch`'s constructor. + + +Version Control +--------------- + +The `hg` and the `git` fetchers fetch from version control systems and +have additional options. ----
--- a/fetch.py Wed Nov 09 17:06:02 2011 -0800 +++ b/fetch.py Wed Nov 09 19:55:15 2011 -0800 @@ -124,7 +124,11 @@ """checkout a git repository""" type = 'git' - fetchers + def __init__(self, url, export=True): + VCSFetcher.__init__(self, url, export=True) + self.hg = which('git') + + fetchers.append(GitFetcher) __all__ += [i.__name__ for i in fetchers]