@coderook/cli 0.31.8 → 0.31.9

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  "name": "coderook",
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  "displayName": "CodeRook",
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  "description": "Save, browse and restore whole-snapshot versions of a project on CodeRook, from Claude Code.",
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- "version": "0.31.8",
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+ "version": "0.31.9",
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  "author": {
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  "name": "ACCA Gaming Productions",
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  "url": "https://coderook.com"
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- # cbx
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-
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- The command is `cbx`, and the split it names is the same one git and GitHub
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- have. **CBX is the engine** — content-defined chunking, whole-snapshot
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- versions, the `.cbx` bundle format. **CodeRook is the host** it talks to. You
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- run `cbx`; you sign in to CodeRook.
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-
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- That is why the names do not match everywhere, and the mismatch is on purpose:
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-
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- | | |
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- | --- | --- |
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- | `cbx …` | the tool — what you type |
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- | `coderook.com`, `@coderook/cli` | the service, and the package it ships in |
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- | `coderook://project` | a remote URL, which names the host it points at |
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- | `CODEROOK_TOKEN`, `%APPDATA%\CodeRook` | credentials for a CodeRook account |
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-
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- It uses the same engines as the desktop application — the same scanner, the
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- same `.gitignore` rules, the same upload, download and `.cbx` bundling — so a
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- project moved by one is understood by the other.
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-
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- ## Install
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-
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- Requires Node 20.11 or later, and nothing else.
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-
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- ```
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- npm install --global @coderook/cli
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- ```
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-
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- That installs `cbx`. It also installs `coderook` as an alias for it, so
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- anything written against the old name keeps working; the two are the same
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- program and either can be used.
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-
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- Or from this repository:
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-
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- ```
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- cd cli
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- npm install
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- npm run build
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- npm link
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- ```
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-
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- ## Sign in
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-
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- Create a personal access token in **Settings** on coderook.com, then:
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-
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- ```
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- cbx sign-in
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- ```
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- The token is written to a file only your account can read:
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-
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- | Platform | Location |
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- | --- | --- |
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- | Windows | `%APPDATA%\CodeRook` |
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- | macOS | `~/Library/Application Support/CodeRook` |
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- | Linux | `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/coderook`, or `~/.config/coderook` |
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-
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- For automation, set `CODEROOK_TOKEN` instead and nothing is written to disk.
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- `CODEROOK_API_URL` points the tool at a different service.
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-
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- ## Everyday use
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-
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- ```
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- cbx status what is here that is not saved yet
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- cbx submit -m "Fixed the parser"
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- cbx get fetch the latest version over this folder
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- cbx clone my-project fetch a project into a new folder
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- ```
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-
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- `status` and `submit` act on the current directory unless you name another.
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- The first time either runs in a folder, it looks for a project on your account
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- whose name matches and links the two, so a folder you already uploaded from
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- the desktop is recognised rather than treated as new.
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-
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- `submit` sends only what changed. Files the service already holds are not
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- uploaded again, and the version it records still names every file in the
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- project — a version is a snapshot, not a difference.
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-
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- ## Lines of work
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-
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- A project can have more than one line, so two people can save without one
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- landing on top of the other.
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-
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- ```
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- cbx tracks the lines this project has
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- cbx track the line this folder saves to
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- cbx track spike --new start a line and switch to it
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- cbx track main switch back
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- cbx submit --track spike -m "Try the other encoder"
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- ```
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-
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- Switching says where the next save goes and nothing else. No files move and
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- nothing is fetched, so it is instant and safe to change your mind — run
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- `cbx get` afterwards to bring that line's files into the folder.
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-
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- The line is remembered per folder, not per account, so two checkouts of one
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- project can sit on different lines. A folder that has never been switched
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- saves to `main`, which is what every folder meant before lines existed.
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-
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- A name that does not exist is refused rather than created. A typo in a branch
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- name is an ordinary thing to do, and a line called `mian` puts work somewhere
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- nobody will look for it — `--new` is how you say you meant it.
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-
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- If two saves land on the same line anyway, the second becomes a merge waiting
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- on a decision. `cbx merges` lists them and `cbx merge <ref>` walks
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- through it; `cbx tracks` shows them beside the ordinary lines, because
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- somebody looking for where they can save needs to see the one they cannot.
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-
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- ## Ignore rules
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- ```
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- cbx ignore show the rules in force
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- cbx ignore --init write a starter .gitignore
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- cbx ignore --suggest what is here that probably should not be sent
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- cbx ignore --suggest --apply add the confident ones
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- ```
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-
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- `cbx rules` is the same command under another name, so anything already
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- written against it keeps working.
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-
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- `--suggest` looks at what the folder would actually send and names the
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- dependency directories, virtual environments and build output in it, with how
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- much each is costing you. Lines marked `+` are safe to assume and are the ones
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- `--apply` writes; anything that might be the work itself is marked `?` and left
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- for you, because the cost of guessing wrong is a project that is not backed up.
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-
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- Rules live in the project's own `.gitignore`, so CodeRook, git, the website
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- and the desktop application all read one file. A `!` line puts something back.
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- Personal exclusions that should not reach a collaborator belong in
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- `.git/info/exclude`.
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-
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- ## Moving a repository here
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-
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- `cbx import` takes a snapshot — the files as they are now, one version, no
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- history. To move off a host entirely, with the history intact:
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-
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- ```
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- cbx transfer https://github.com/owner/project
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- ```
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-
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- GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg and any self-hosted Gitea or Forgejo. Every commit
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- becomes a version and every branch a line, so it takes a while on a long
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- history — the commit count and an estimate are printed before it starts.
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- **It goes through the public route on purpose.** The history is published by
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- running `git push` against the CodeRook remote, exactly as you would by hand.
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- A transfer that used a private path would prove only that a private path
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- exists.
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- | | |
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- | --- | --- |
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- | Comes across | commits, every branch, tags as releases, the description |
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- | With `--issues` and a read token | the open issues |
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- | Does not come across | pull requests and reviews, CI configuration, collaborators, stars |
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- The project is created **private** whatever the source was — publishing
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- somebody's code as a side effect of moving it is not recoverable. Pass
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- `--visibility same` to mirror the source, or `--public`.
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- A private repository needs a read token in the environment — `GITHUB_TOKEN`,
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- `GITLAB_TOKEN` or `FORGE_TOKEN`. It is never taken as a flag, never stored,
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- and there is no OAuth flow: holding your forge credentials to run a one-off
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- migration sits badly beside a promise that your work is not handed to anybody.
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- The report at the end lists what arrived and what did not, rather than leaving
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- the absence to be discovered later.
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- ## Using git instead
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- Installing the CLI also installs `git-remote-coderook`, so git talks to
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- CodeRook directly — both ways:
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- ```
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- git clone coderook://my-project
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- git push coderook main
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- git fetch
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- ```
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- It exists so that every editor's built-in git panel works with CodeRook
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- without a plugin. If you are not already living in git, `cbx submit` is
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- the simpler tool and this is not an upgrade on it.
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- **Pushing.** Each commit becomes a version, oldest first, with its message
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- kept. Later pushes send only what is new, so the usual case — a few commits —
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- is quick; a first push of a long history is not, and the helper says how many
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- commits it is about to publish before it starts. Branches become lines, and a
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- branch pushed for the first time starts from the commit it forked at rather
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- than from wherever the project happens to be.
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- **Cloning and fetching.** Every version becomes a commit, keeping its message,
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- its date and who published it. This works on any project, including one that
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- has never been near git — a project built entirely with `cbx submit`
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- clones into a normal git history. A fetch only downloads versions this clone
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- does not already have.
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- **What it does not do:**
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- | Tag kind | A lightweight tag comes back annotated. CodeRook records a name, not which sort of tag made it. |
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- | Force pushes, branch deletion | Refused — versions are immutable, so there is nothing to rewind to. |
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- | Submodules | Skipped on push, and it says which paths. |
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- | The executable bit | Everything arrives as a normal file. A script cloned back needs `chmod +x`. |
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- **On round trips.** Push then clone gives you back the same *files*, not the
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- same *commit ids*. A commit id covers its author, committer and timestamps,
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- and CodeRook records who published a version rather than the original stamps —
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- so the history you get back is a faithful copy of the contents and an honest
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- approximation of the commits. Two people cloning the same project do get
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- identical ids as each other.
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- Merges are asymmetric for the same reason. A publish states one base version,
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- so pushing a git merge records one parent and the fork is lost — the merged
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- tree is exact, the shape is not. Reading back is richer: a version that really
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- has two parents is rebuilt as a real git merge.
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- Each version records the commit it came from, so a colleague pushing the same
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- project does not republish history the project already holds. Pushing a git
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- history into a project whose versions came from somewhere else is refused
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- rather than interleaved.
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- ### The names are the same
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- There is no translation table to learn, because there is nothing to translate.
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- The commands carry git's names:
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- ```
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- cbx push cbx pull cbx clone
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- cbx log cbx status cbx branch
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- cbx checkout cbx merge cbx tag
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- ```
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- Each is the CodeRook command it always was, reachable by the name a git user
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- would reach for: `push` is `submit`, `pull` is `get`, `log` is `versions`,
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- `branch` is `tracks`, `checkout` is `track`, `tag` is `release`. The original
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- names still work and mean the same thing.
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- That is also what the git remote does. `git push` performs the operation
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- `cbx push` performs — the same code decides what changed, the same code
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- publishes it. The remote is a way to reach these commands from git, not a
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- second implementation of them that happens to agree.
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- **What does not appear on that list**, because git has no such idea and
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- inventing one would be pretending: `projects`, `delete`, `people`, `watch`,
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- `issues`, `actions`, `runs`, `logs`, `runner`, `tokens`, `licence`, `ai`. Use
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- them by name; nothing about them changes when a version arrives through git.
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- `git commit` has no CodeRook equivalent either, and should not: it is local to
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- git, and a version is not made until something is published.
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- ### Tags and releases
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- `git push --tags` publishes each tag as a release, because that is the same
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- statement in the other vocabulary — the service puts it plainly: *"a release
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- is a Version with a name on it, not a different kind of object."*
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- ```
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- git tag -a v1.0 -m "First stable release"
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- git push coderook v1.0
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- ```
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- The tag names the version its commit already became; it does not publish
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- anything, so push the branch first. An annotated tag's message becomes the
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- release notes and a lightweight tag brings none — the commit's own message is
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- deliberately *not* used, since nobody wrote it about the release.
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- Cloning reverses it: every release comes back as a tag on the right commit.
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- Assets are separate and unaffected. They attach to a version from a run's
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- artifacts, so a release made by pushing a tag simply has none until something
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- adds them — which is what a release without a build has always looked like.
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- ## Bundles
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- ```
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- cbx bundle pack this project as <name>.cbx
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- cbx unbundle backup.cbx extract one
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- cbx inspect backup.cbx see what it holds (--files to list them)
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- ```
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- A `.cbx` is the CodeBox bundle format: content-defined chunks, Zstandard where
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- it helps, raw where it does not, and a SHA-256 for every chunk and file.
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- Extraction is verified and atomic — a damaged bundle fails rather than leaving
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- a half-written tree.
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- ## Claude Code
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- Run this **in a terminal**, not inside Claude Code:
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- ```bash
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- cbx skill
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- ```
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- That is the whole setup. It writes `~/.claude/skills/coderook/SKILL.md`, and
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- from then on you ask for what you want in ordinary words:
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- > save this to CodeRook
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- > what have I changed?
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- > what versions does this project have?
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- Claude works out which commands to run. You can also call it by name with
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- `/coderook`.
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- **The skill is called `coderook`, not `cbx`.** `cbx` is the command line, run
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- in a terminal; the skill is the file that teaches Claude how to use it. Typing
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- `cbx skill` *into* Claude Code asks it for a skill by that name and it will
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- tell you there is not one — which is correct, and is why the line above says
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- where to run it.
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- `cbx skill --project` writes it into `./.claude` instead of your home
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- folder, so it travels with the repository and everybody who clones it has it
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- too.
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- Sign in once per machine first — `cbx sign-in` — or set `CODEROOK_TOKEN`
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- in automation. The skill will not save anything without asking you first, and
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- never deletes.
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- ## Installing it as a plugin instead
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- If you would rather not install the command line first, CodeRook publishes a
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- plugin marketplace of its own:
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- ```
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- /plugin marketplace add https://coderook.com/marketplace.json
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- /plugin install coderook@coderook
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- ```
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- That fetches the same package from npm and brings the skill with it. The
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- marketplace is a plain file on coderook.com rather than a git repository, so
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- there is no repository to clone and no second account anywhere.
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- One thing to know: a plugin install puts the package in Claude Code's plugin
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- folder, not on your `PATH`. The skill copes with that on its own by falling
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- back to `npx -y @coderook/cli`, but `npm install --global @coderook/cli` is
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- faster if you plan to run commands yourself as well.
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- ## A structured connection instead
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- The skill teaches Claude the command line, which needs no configuration. If you
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- would rather it had structured tools, there is an MCP server as well. It works
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- with Codex too, which is the reason it exists.
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- Claude Code:
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- ```
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- claude mcp add --scope user coderook -- npx -y @coderook/cli mcp
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- ```
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- ```toml
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- args = ["-y", "@coderook/cli", "mcp"]
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- ```
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- To share it with everyone on a project, commit this beside the code:
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- ```json
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- "coderook": {
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- "command": "npx",
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- "args": ["-y", "@coderook/cli", "mcp"]
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- }
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- }
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- }
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- ```
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- It offers five things, all of which read: your projects, a project's versions,
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- the files in a version, one file's contents at a version, and what has changed
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- in a local folder. It cannot save, delete, or sign in or out.
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- ## Checking things
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- ```
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- cbx doctor
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- ```
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- Reports the tool's version, where its configuration lives, whether the service
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- is reachable, and who this machine is signed in as.
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- ## Exit codes
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- error, so a script can branch on the status and log the reason.
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+ # cbx
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+ The command line for [CodeRook](https://coderook.com), version control and
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+ project hosting for projects of any size. Every save is a complete,
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+ compressed snapshot of the folder; projects are private or public at your
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+ choice; and nothing stored on CodeRook is used to train AI. There is also a
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+ [desktop app](https://coderook.com/download) and the website, and all three do
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+ the same things. [How CodeRook works](https://coderook.com/docs).
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+
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+ ```
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+ npm install -g @coderook/cli
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+ cbx login
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+ ```
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+
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+ The command is `cbx`, and the split it names is the same one git and GitHub
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+ have. **CBX is the engine** — content-defined chunking, whole-snapshot
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+ versions, the `.cbx` bundle format. **CodeRook is the host** it talks to. You
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+ run `cbx`; you sign in to CodeRook.
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+
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+ That is why the names do not match everywhere, and the mismatch is on purpose:
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+
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+ | | |
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+ | --- | --- |
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+ | `cbx …` | the tool — what you type |
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+ | `coderook.com`, `@coderook/cli` | the service, and the package it ships in |
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+ | `coderook://project` | a remote URL, which names the host it points at |
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+ | `CODEROOK_TOKEN`, `%APPDATA%\CodeRook` | credentials for a CodeRook account |
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+
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+ It uses the same engines as the desktop application — the same scanner, the
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+ same `.gitignore` rules, the same upload, download and `.cbx` bundling — so a
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+ project moved by one is understood by the other.
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+
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+ ## Install
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+
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+ Requires Node 20.11 or later, and nothing else.
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+
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+ ```
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+ npm install --global @coderook/cli
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+ ```
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+
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+ That installs `cbx`. It also installs `coderook` as an alias for it, so
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+ anything written against the old name keeps working; the two are the same
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+ program and either can be used.
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+
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+ Or from this repository:
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+
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+ ```
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+ cd cli
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+ npm install
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+ npm run build
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+ npm link
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+ ```
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+
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+ ## Sign in
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+
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+ Create a personal access token in **Settings** on coderook.com, then:
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+
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+ ```
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+ cbx sign-in
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+ ```
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+ The token is written to a file only your account can read:
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+
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+ | Platform | Location |
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+ | --- | --- |
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+ | Windows | `%APPDATA%\CodeRook` |
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+ | macOS | `~/Library/Application Support/CodeRook` |
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+ | Linux | `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/coderook`, or `~/.config/coderook` |
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+
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+ For automation, set `CODEROOK_TOKEN` instead and nothing is written to disk.
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+ `CODEROOK_API_URL` points the tool at a different service.
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+
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+ ## Everyday use
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+
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+ ```
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+ cbx status what is here that is not saved yet
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+ cbx submit -m "Fixed the parser"
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+ cbx get fetch the latest version over this folder
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+ cbx clone my-project fetch a project into a new folder
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+ ```
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+
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+ `status` and `submit` act on the current directory unless you name another.
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+ The first time either runs in a folder, it looks for a project on your account
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+ whose name matches and links the two, so a folder you already uploaded from
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+ the desktop is recognised rather than treated as new.
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+
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+ `submit` sends only what changed. Files the service already holds are not
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+ uploaded again, and the version it records still names every file in the
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+ project — a version is a snapshot, not a difference.
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+
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+ ## Lines of work
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+
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+ A project can have more than one line, so two people can save without one
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+ landing on top of the other.
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+
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+ ```
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+ cbx tracks the lines this project has
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+ cbx track the line this folder saves to
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+ cbx track spike --new start a line and switch to it
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+ cbx track main switch back
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+ cbx submit --track spike -m "Try the other encoder"
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+ ```
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+
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+ Switching says where the next save goes and nothing else. No files move and
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+ nothing is fetched, so it is instant and safe to change your mind — run
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+ `cbx get` afterwards to bring that line's files into the folder.
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+
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+ The line is remembered per folder, not per account, so two checkouts of one
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+ project can sit on different lines. A folder that has never been switched
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+ saves to `main`, which is what every folder meant before lines existed.
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+
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+ A name that does not exist is refused rather than created. A typo in a branch
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+ name is an ordinary thing to do, and a line called `mian` puts work somewhere
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+ nobody will look for it — `--new` is how you say you meant it.
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+
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+ If two saves land on the same line anyway, the second becomes a merge waiting
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+ on a decision. `cbx merges` lists them and `cbx merge <ref>` walks
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+ through it; `cbx tracks` shows them beside the ordinary lines, because
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+ somebody looking for where they can save needs to see the one they cannot.
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+
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+ ## Ignore rules
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+
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+ ```
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+ cbx ignore show the rules in force
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+ cbx ignore --init write a starter .gitignore
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+ cbx ignore --suggest what is here that probably should not be sent
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+ cbx ignore --suggest --apply add the confident ones
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+ ```
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+
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+ `cbx rules` is the same command under another name, so anything already
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+ written against it keeps working.
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+
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+ `--suggest` looks at what the folder would actually send and names the
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+ dependency directories, virtual environments and build output in it, with how
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+ much each is costing you. Lines marked `+` are safe to assume and are the ones
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+ `--apply` writes; anything that might be the work itself is marked `?` and left
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+ for you, because the cost of guessing wrong is a project that is not backed up.
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+
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+ Rules live in the project's own `.gitignore`, so CodeRook, git, the website
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+ and the desktop application all read one file. A `!` line puts something back.
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+ Personal exclusions that should not reach a collaborator belong in
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+ `.git/info/exclude`.
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+
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+ ## Moving a repository here
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+
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+ `cbx import` takes a snapshot — the files as they are now, one version, no
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+ history. To move off a host entirely, with the history intact:
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+
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+ ```
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+ cbx transfer https://github.com/owner/project
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+ ```
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+
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+ GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg and any self-hosted Gitea or Forgejo. Every commit
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+ becomes a version and every branch a line, so it takes a while on a long
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+ history — the commit count and an estimate are printed before it starts.
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+
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+ **It goes through the public route on purpose.** The history is published by
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+ running `git push` against the CodeRook remote, exactly as you would by hand.
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+ A transfer that used a private path would prove only that a private path
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+ exists.
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+
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+ | | |
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+ | --- | --- |
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+ | Comes across | commits, every branch, tags as releases, the description |
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+ | With `--issues` and a read token | the open issues |
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+ | Does not come across | pull requests and reviews, CI configuration, collaborators, stars |
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+
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+ The project is created **private** whatever the source was — publishing
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+ somebody's code as a side effect of moving it is not recoverable. Pass
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+ `--visibility same` to mirror the source, or `--public`.
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+ A private repository needs a read token in the environment — `GITHUB_TOKEN`,
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+ `GITLAB_TOKEN` or `FORGE_TOKEN`. It is never taken as a flag, never stored,
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+ and there is no OAuth flow: holding your forge credentials to run a one-off
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+ migration sits badly beside a promise that your work is not handed to anybody.
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+ The report at the end lists what arrived and what did not, rather than leaving
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+ the absence to be discovered later.
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+
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+ ## Using git instead
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+
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+ Installing the CLI also installs `git-remote-coderook`, so git talks to
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+ CodeRook directly — both ways:
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+
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+ ```
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+ git clone coderook://my-project
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+ git push coderook main
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+ git fetch
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+ ```
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+
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+ It exists so that every editor's built-in git panel works with CodeRook
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+ without a plugin. If you are not already living in git, `cbx submit` is
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+ the simpler tool and this is not an upgrade on it.
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+
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+ **Pushing.** Each commit becomes a version, oldest first, with its message
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+ kept. Later pushes send only what is new, so the usual case — a few commits —
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+ is quick; a first push of a long history is not, and the helper says how many
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+ commits it is about to publish before it starts. Branches become lines, and a
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+ branch pushed for the first time starts from the commit it forked at rather
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+ than from wherever the project happens to be.
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+
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+ **Cloning and fetching.** Every version becomes a commit, keeping its message,
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+ its date and who published it. This works on any project, including one that
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+ has never been near git — a project built entirely with `cbx submit`
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+ clones into a normal git history. A fetch only downloads versions this clone
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+ does not already have.
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+
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+ **What it does not do:**
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+
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+ | | |
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+ | --- | --- |
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+ | Tag kind | A lightweight tag comes back annotated. CodeRook records a name, not which sort of tag made it. |
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+ | Force pushes, branch deletion | Refused — versions are immutable, so there is nothing to rewind to. |
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+ | Submodules | Skipped on push, and it says which paths. |
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+ | The executable bit | Everything arrives as a normal file. A script cloned back needs `chmod +x`. |
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+
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+ **On round trips.** Push then clone gives you back the same *files*, not the
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+ same *commit ids*. A commit id covers its author, committer and timestamps,
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+ and CodeRook records who published a version rather than the original stamps —
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+ so the history you get back is a faithful copy of the contents and an honest
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+ approximation of the commits. Two people cloning the same project do get
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+ identical ids as each other.
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+
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+ Merges are asymmetric for the same reason. A publish states one base version,
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+ so pushing a git merge records one parent and the fork is lost — the merged
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+ tree is exact, the shape is not. Reading back is richer: a version that really
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+ has two parents is rebuilt as a real git merge.
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+
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+ Each version records the commit it came from, so a colleague pushing the same
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+ project does not republish history the project already holds. Pushing a git
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+ history into a project whose versions came from somewhere else is refused
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+ rather than interleaved.
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+
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+ ### The names are the same
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+
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+ There is no translation table to learn, because there is nothing to translate.
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+ The commands carry git's names:
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+
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+ ```
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+ cbx push cbx pull cbx clone
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+ cbx log cbx status cbx branch
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+ cbx checkout cbx merge cbx tag
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+ ```
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+
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+ Each is the CodeRook command it always was, reachable by the name a git user
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+ would reach for: `push` is `submit`, `pull` is `get`, `log` is `versions`,
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+ `branch` is `tracks`, `checkout` is `track`, `tag` is `release`. The original
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+ names still work and mean the same thing.
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+
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+ That is also what the git remote does. `git push` performs the operation
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+ `cbx push` performs — the same code decides what changed, the same code
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+ publishes it. The remote is a way to reach these commands from git, not a
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+ second implementation of them that happens to agree.
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+
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+ **What does not appear on that list**, because git has no such idea and
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+ inventing one would be pretending: `projects`, `delete`, `people`, `watch`,
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+ `issues`, `actions`, `runs`, `logs`, `runner`, `tokens`, `licence`, `ai`. Use
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+ them by name; nothing about them changes when a version arrives through git.
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+
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+ `git commit` has no CodeRook equivalent either, and should not: it is local to
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+ git, and a version is not made until something is published.
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+
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+ ### Tags and releases
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+
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+ `git push --tags` publishes each tag as a release, because that is the same
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+ statement in the other vocabulary — the service puts it plainly: *"a release
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+ is a Version with a name on it, not a different kind of object."*
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+
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+ ```
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+ git tag -a v1.0 -m "First stable release"
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+ git push coderook v1.0
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+ ```
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+
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+ The tag names the version its commit already became; it does not publish
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+ anything, so push the branch first. An annotated tag's message becomes the
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+ release notes and a lightweight tag brings none — the commit's own message is
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+ deliberately *not* used, since nobody wrote it about the release.
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+
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+ Cloning reverses it: every release comes back as a tag on the right commit.
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+
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+ Assets are separate and unaffected. They attach to a version from a run's
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+ artifacts, so a release made by pushing a tag simply has none until something
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+ adds them — which is what a release without a build has always looked like.
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+
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+ ## Bundles
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+
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+ ```
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+ cbx bundle pack this project as <name>.cbx
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+ cbx unbundle backup.cbx extract one
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+ cbx inspect backup.cbx see what it holds (--files to list them)
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+ ```
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+
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+ A `.cbx` is the CodeBox bundle format: content-defined chunks, Zstandard where
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+ it helps, raw where it does not, and a SHA-256 for every chunk and file.
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+ Extraction is verified and atomic — a damaged bundle fails rather than leaving
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+ a half-written tree.
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+
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+ ## Claude Code
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+
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+ Run this **in a terminal**, not inside Claude Code:
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ cbx skill
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+ ```
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+
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+ That is the whole setup. It writes `~/.claude/skills/coderook/SKILL.md`, and
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+ from then on you ask for what you want in ordinary words:
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+
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+ > save this to CodeRook
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+
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+ > what have I changed?
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+
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+ > what versions does this project have?
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+
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+ Claude works out which commands to run. You can also call it by name with
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+ `/coderook`.
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+
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+ **The skill is called `coderook`, not `cbx`.** `cbx` is the command line, run
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+ in a terminal; the skill is the file that teaches Claude how to use it. Typing
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+ `cbx skill` *into* Claude Code asks it for a skill by that name and it will
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+ tell you there is not one — which is correct, and is why the line above says
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+ where to run it.
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+
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+ `cbx skill --project` writes it into `./.claude` instead of your home
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+ folder, so it travels with the repository and everybody who clones it has it
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+ too.
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+
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+ Sign in once per machine first — `cbx sign-in` — or set `CODEROOK_TOKEN`
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+ in automation. The skill will not save anything without asking you first, and
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+ never deletes.
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+
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+ ## Installing it as a plugin instead
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+
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+ If you would rather not install the command line first, CodeRook publishes a
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+ plugin marketplace of its own:
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+
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+ ```
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+ /plugin marketplace add https://coderook.com/marketplace.json
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+ /plugin install coderook@coderook
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+ ```
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+
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+ That fetches the same package from npm and brings the skill with it. The
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+ marketplace is a plain file on coderook.com rather than a git repository, so
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+ there is no repository to clone and no second account anywhere.
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+
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+ One thing to know: a plugin install puts the package in Claude Code's plugin
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+ folder, not on your `PATH`. The skill copes with that on its own by falling
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+ back to `npx -y @coderook/cli`, but `npm install --global @coderook/cli` is
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+ faster if you plan to run commands yourself as well.
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+
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+ ## A structured connection instead
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+
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+ The skill teaches Claude the command line, which needs no configuration. If you
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+ would rather it had structured tools, there is an MCP server as well. It works
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+ with Codex too, which is the reason it exists.
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+
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+ Claude Code:
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+
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+ ```
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+ claude mcp add --scope user coderook -- npx -y @coderook/cli mcp
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+ ```
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+
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+ Codex, in `~/.codex/config.toml`:
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+
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+ ```toml
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+ [mcp_servers.coderook]
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+ command = "npx"
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+ args = ["-y", "@coderook/cli", "mcp"]
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+ ```
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+
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+ To share it with everyone on a project, commit this beside the code:
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+
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+ ```json
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+ // .mcp.json
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+ {
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+ "mcpServers": {
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+ "coderook": {
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+ "command": "npx",
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+ "args": ["-y", "@coderook/cli", "mcp"]
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+ }
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+ }
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ It offers five things, all of which read: your projects, a project's versions,
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+ the files in a version, one file's contents at a version, and what has changed
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+ in a local folder. It cannot save, delete, or sign in or out.
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+
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+ ## Checking things
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+
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+ ```
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+ cbx doctor
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+ ```
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+
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+ Reports the tool's version, where its configuration lives, whether the service
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+ is reachable, and who this machine is signed in as.
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+
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+ ## Exit codes
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+
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+ `0` on success, `1` on failure. Every command prints why it failed on standard
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+ error, so a script can branch on the status and log the reason.
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  {
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  "name": "@coderook/cli",
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- "version": "0.31.8",
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- "description": "CodeRook from the command line, on any operating system",
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+ "version": "0.31.9",
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+ "description": "The command line for CodeRook (coderook.com): version control and project hosting for projects of any size. Every save is a compressed snapshot, private or public, never used to train AI.",
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  "license": "SEE LICENSE IN LICENSE.txt",
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  "homepage": "https://coderook.com",
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  },
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  "keywords": [
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  "coderook",
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+ "cbx",
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+ "version-control",
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+ "vcs",
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  "versioning",
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+ "project-hosting",
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  "backup",
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- "cbx"
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+ "snapshots",
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+ "large-files",
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+ "gamedev"
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  ],
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  "engines": {
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  "node": ">=20.11.0"