webcheckout(1)
NAME
webcheckout - check out repositories referenced on a web page
SYNOPSIS
webcheckout [options] url [destdir]
DESCRIPTION
webcheckout downloads an url and parses it, looking for version control
repositories referenced by the page. It checks out each repository into
a subdirectory of the current directory, using whatever VCS program is
appropriate for that repository (git, svn, etc).
The information about the repositories is embedded in the web page
using the rel=vcs-* microformat, which is documented at
<http://kitenet.net/~joey/rfc/rel-vcs/>.
If the optional destdir parameter is specified, VCS programs will be
asked to check out repositories into that directory. If there are
multiple repositories to check out, each will be checked out into a
separate subdirectory of the destdir.
OPTIONS
- -a, --auth
- Prefer authenticated repositories. By default, webcheckout will use
anonymous repositories when possible. If you have an account that
allows you to use authenticated repositories, you might want to use this option. - --no-act, -n
- Do not actually check anything out, just print out the commands
that would be run to check out the repositories. - --quiet, -q
- Quiet mode. Do not print out the commands being run. (The VCS
commands may still be noisy however.)
PREREQUISITES
To use this program you will need lots of VCS programs installed,
obviously. It also depends on the perl LWP and HTML::Parser modules.
If the perl URI module is installed, webcheckout can heuristically
guess what you mean by partial URLs, such as "kitenet.net/~joey"'
AUTHOR
Copyright 2009 Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Licensed under the GNU GPL version 2 or higher.
- This program is included in mr <http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/mr/>