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  1. Unity Version Control (previously Plastic SCM)

REPOSITORY ADD

Add repositories with the Unity Version Control CLI.
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Last updated a year ago

Description

Connects an existing repository by adding its database.

Usage

cm repository | repo add <db_file> <rep_name> <repserverspec>

Options

Option / Argument

Description

db_fileThe name of the database file on the database backend.
rep_nameThe name of the repository.
repserverspecThe repository server specification. (Use 'cm help objectspec' to learn more about repository server specifications.)

Help

Remarks

Reconnects an existing repository database to the server. This command is useful to move a repository from one server to another, or to restore an archived repository after using the 'cm repository delete' command.

Examples

cm repository add rep_27 myrepository myserver:8084
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