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hitchhiker

NAME

hitchhiker - Access locations using Bazaar transports

SYNOPSIS

     hitchhiker [URL] [COMMAND] [ARGS]
 
 

OPTIONS

None.

DESCRIPTION

A client to access bzr transports, namely the Bazaar version control repositories. This utility can be used to log into the remote host and manipulate Bazaar repositoy content like it were a FTP, SFTP client. Command include cp, mv, rmtree etc. Use Case: command 'bzr upgrade <URL> <repository format options>' is run and after the process is over the backup.bzr needs to be removed. With this tool the task is easy.

If no COMMAND is supplied, interactive mode is launched. If no URL is supplied, in interactive mode, the ``open'' command should be used to connect to a location.

EXAMPLES

COMMAND LINE USE

To run command, like help non-interactively, use URL, e.g. current directory:

    hitchhiker . help
 
 

Without options, the command line client starts in interactive mode:

     hitchhiker
     (Cmd) <cursor here>
 
 

Try command help for list of possibilities

     (Cmd) help
     at
     cd
     connect-and-wait
     edit
     exit
     get
     help
     info
     ls
     lsl
     mirror
     mkdir
     open
     put
     rename
     rm
     rmtree
 
 

Further help is provided for each command:

     (Cmd) help open
     Usage: open LOCATION
     Open a new location.
 
     The location may be any URL supported by Bazaar.
     (Cmd) exit
 
 

USE CASES

Upgrade a remote Bazaar baranch at http://launchpad.net Bazaar and remove the backup

        bzr upgrade lp:~user/+brach/name --2a
        hitchhiker lp:~user/+brach/name rmtree backup.bzr
 
 

ENVIRONMENT

None.

FILES

None.

SEE ALSO

bzr(1) sftp(1)

AUTHORS

Program was written by Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley@canonical.com>.

This manual page was written by Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>, for the Debian GNU system (but may be used by others). Updated by Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>. Released under license GNU GPL v2 or (at your option) any later version. For more information about license, visit <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>.