如何回购初始化清单文件而忽略注释标记？

Question

repo manifest file has a line as below:

<project name="something" path="something" revision="some sha"><annotation version="1.2.3" />

When I do repo init on the manifest, it fails saying:
fatal: no name in <annotation> within /path/of/manifest.xml

It works if I change annotation tag in manifest as <annotation name="version" value="1.2.3" /> , but is there a way to workaround this? I don't want to change those old manifest files, is there a way to do repo init by ignoring " annotation " tag?

Answer 1

According to the manifest format , name and value are required. repo init does not have any option that works on it.

Specify another manifest or omit -m <manifest.xml> in repo init , and leave -m manifest to repo sync .

You could modify the manifest between repo init and repo sync , like commenting out the annotation lines or making a new copy without annotation lines. So you don't have to commit the changes.