This simple recipe for zc.buildout fetches data from a given repository and stores it into its part's directory. A simple task using this could look like this:

[myapp]
recipe=sact.recipe.gitrepository
repository=git://github.com/securactive/sact.recipe.gitrepository
rev=7c73978b55fcadbe2cd6f2abbefbedb5a85c2c8c

This would store the repository under ${buildout:directory}/parts/myapp and keep it at exactly this revision, no matter what happens on the server.

The recipe has following options:

repository

The absolute URL of the repository to be fetched

rev

A revision/commit within this repository the environment should use.

branch

If you want to stay up to date with a certain branch other than "master", use this.

paths

List of relative paths to packages to develop. Must be used together with as_egg=true.

newest

This overrides the newest-option of the global setting for this part

as_egg

Set to True if you want the checkout to be registered as a development egg in your buildout.

cache-name

Name of the repository in the download-cache directory.

recursive

Follow submodules (Note that submodules are not cloned from the download cache).

Offline installation

If you want to install a part from the download-cache, this is now possible, too:

[buildout]
parts = myapp
download-cache = /var/cache/buildout
install-from-cache = true

[mylib]
recipe = sact.recipe.gitrepository
repository = http://domain.com/repo.git

With this configuration, the recipe will look for /var/cache/buildout/repo and clone it into the local parts/ folder.

The recipe also supports an additional "cache-name" setting that lets you configure the folder name of the repository in the download cache.