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Google's Copybara: An Internal Tool for Transforming and Moving Code Between Repositories

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4h ago· 5 min readenCode

Summary

Copybara is an internal Google tool for transforming and moving source code between repositories. It is designed to help maintain synchronization between multiple repositories (e.g., a confidential internal repo and a public one) while designating one as the authoritative source of truth. The tool supports contributions to any repository but ensures a single source of truth.

Source

Hacker NewsGoogle's Copybara: An Internal Tool for Transforming and Moving Code Between Repositoriesgithub.com

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Copybara is a tool used internally at Google.
It transforms and moves code between repositories.
A common case is a project that involves maintaining a confidential repository and a public repository in sync.
Copybara requires you to choose one of the repositories to be the authoritative repository, so that there is always one source of truth.
However, the tool allows contributions to any
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Copybara: A tool for transforming and moving code between repositories. - google/copybara

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