Command-line interface¶
swh identify¶
Compute the Software Heritage persistent identifier (SWHID) for the given source code object(s).
For more details about SWHIDs see:
Tip: you can pass “-” to identify the content of standard input.
Examples:
$ swh identify fork.c kmod.c sched/deadline.c
swh:1:cnt:2e391c754ae730bd2d8520c2ab497c403220c6e3 fork.c
swh:1:cnt:0277d1216f80ae1adeed84a686ed34c9b2931fc2 kmod.c
swh:1:cnt:57b939c81bce5d06fa587df8915f05affbe22b82 sched/deadline.c
$ swh identify –no-filename /usr/src/linux/kernel/
swh:1:dir:f9f858a48d663b3809c9e2f336412717496202ab
$ git clone –mirror https://forge.softwareheritage.org/source/helloworld.git
$ swh identify –type snapshot helloworld.git/
swh:1:snp:510aa88bdc517345d258c1fc2babcd0e1f905e93 helloworld.git
swh identify [OPTIONS] OBJECTS...
Options
-
--dereference,--no-dereference¶ follow (or not) symlinks for OBJECTS passed as arguments (default: follow)
-
--filename,--no-filename¶ show/hide file name (default: show)
-
-t,--type<obj_type>¶ type of object to identify (default: auto)
- Options
auto|content|directory|origin|snapshot
-
-x,--exclude<PATTERN>¶ Exclude directories using glob patterns (e.g., ‘*.git’ to exclude all .git directories)
-
-v,--verify<SWHID>¶ reference identifier to be compared with computed one
Arguments
-
OBJECTS¶ Required argument(s)