public-inbox-clone(1)

inbox-clone - "git clone --mirror" wrapper

Section 1 public-inbox bookworm source

Description

PUBLIC-INBOX-CLONE

NAME

public-inbox-clone - "git clone --mirror" wrapper

SYNOPSIS

public-inbox-clone INBOX_URL [ INBOX_DIR ]

DESCRIPTION

public-inbox-clone is a wrapper around "git clone --mirror" for making the initial clone of a remote HTTP (S) public-inbox. It allows cloning multi-epoch v2 inboxes with a single command and zero configuration.

It does not run public-inbox-init(1) nor public-inbox-index(1). Those commands must be run separately if serving/searching the mirror is required. As-is, public-inbox-clone is suitable for creating a git-only backup.

public-inbox-clone creates a Makefile with handy targets to update the inbox once indexed. This Makefile may be edited by the user; it will not be rewritten by public-inbox-fetch(1) unless it is removed completely.

public-inbox-clone does not use nor require any extra configuration files (not even "˜/.public-inbox/config").

public-inbox-fetch(1) may be used to keep "INBOX_DIR" up-to-date.

For v2 inboxes, it will create a "$INBOX_DIR/manifest.js.gz" file to speed up subsequent public-inbox-fetch(1).

OPTIONS

--epoch=RANGE

Restrict clones of public-inbox-v2-format(5) inboxes to the given range of epochs. The range may be a single non-negative integer or a (possibly open-ended) "LOW..HIGH" range of non-negative integers. "˜" may be prefixed to either (or both) integer values to represent the offset from the maximum possible value.

For example, "--epoch=˜0" alone clones only the latest epoch, "--epoch=˜2.." clones the three latest epochs.

Default: "0..˜0" or 0.. or "..˜0" (all epochs, all three examples are equivalent)

-q

--quiet

Quiets down progress messages, also passed to git-fetch(1).

-v

--verbose

Increases verbosity, also passed to git-fetch(1).

--torsocks=auto|no|yes
--no-torsocks

Whether to wrap git(1) and curl(1) commands with torsocks(1).

Default: "auto"

CONTACT

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COPYRIGHT

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