Demystifying West
summary
West is a command‑line repo manager for Zephyr that is written in Python, published on PyPI, and used to initialize and update workspaces with a YAML manifest that can import and override upstream projects. It clones projects, supports frozen SHAs or branch tracking, sets detached HEADs, and preserves local work via keep-descendants / rebase. Extension commands live in manifests, it runs as a Python library, supports cross‑platform builds and SDK/package automation, and already works at scale for multiple vendors.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00West introduction
- 10:29Why West was developed
- 22:00West workspace and manifest
- 31:32West extensions and config
- 38:16West future and ecosystem
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