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# Capture documentation from a git repository
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Documentation that lives in a git repository is captured, not copied by hand. A capture records the
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repository, the ref rule and the commit it came from. Later, the wiki can tell which captured
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material has fallen behind its repository, and take in the new edition as a whole.
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## What you prepare
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Access to the repository from this machine. Git uses your own keys and credential helpers, and
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nothing is stored in the instance. Then decide three things:
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- the repository URL;
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- the ref to follow, usually a branch such as `main`;
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- which files count, as a glob, for example `docs/**/*.md`.
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## Taking a repository in for the first time
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You can run the capture yourself, or name the three values to the agent and let it run the
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command:
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```bash
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tools/wikitool raw capture <repo-url> --ref main --path 'docs/**/*.md' --name <bundle>
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```
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This writes the matching files, byte for byte, into `incoming/<bundle>/`, together with a
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`_capture.json` manifest naming the repository, the ref rule and the commit. From there it is an
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ordinary source: `Ingest incoming/<bundle>` ([Ingest a source](ingest-a-source.md)), with the same
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questions and the same gate.
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## Keeping it current
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```bash
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tools/wikitool raw status
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```
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This lists every captured bundle that has fallen behind its repository, file by file, marking each
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file as added, modified or deleted. It only reads.
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To bring them in, say:
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```text
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Update the captured repositories
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```
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The agent checks every captured bundle. It takes one changed bundle per run into the wiki, replacing
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the old edition as a whole, and tells you how many are still behind. Run it again for the next one.
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`raw capture --update` and `raw accept --replaces-bundle` are the commands underneath. What each one
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does is in the [command reference](../reference/commands/raw-material-and-uploads.md).
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## Where the agent stops
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The same places as any ingest: the `fidelity`/`authority` questions, the discussion of what
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matters, and the Mass-Update Gate when it publishes. When one repository cannot be reached, the
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agent reports the error and carries on with the others. A failure in one never stops the run.
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## Related
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- [Export guidelines](export-guidelines.md) - sending the wiki's guidelines back into the same
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repositories.
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