---
name: "pkgctl-repo-configure"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "devtools"
version: "1:1.5.3-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/pkgctl-repo-configure"
---

# pkgctl-repo-configure(1)

Configure a clone according to distro specs

## NAME

pkgctl-repo-configure - Configure a clone according to distro specs

## SYNOPSIS

pkgctl repo configure \[OPTIONS\] \[PATH...\]

## DESCRIPTION

Configure Git packaging repositories according to distro specs and *makepkg.conf* settings.

Git author information and the used signing key is set up from *makepkg.conf* read from any valid location like */etc* or *XDG\_CONFIG\_HOME*.

The remote protocol is automatically determined from the author email address by choosing SSH for all official packager identities and read-only HTTPS otherwise.

Git default excludes and hooks are applied to the configured repo.

## OPTIONS

- **--protocol** *https*

  Configure remote url to use https

- **-j, --jobs** *N*

  Run up to N jobs in parallel. By default the number of jobs is equal to the number of available processing units. For sequential processing this option needs to be passed with 1.

- **-h, --help**

  Show a help text

## HOMEPAGE

 *\<https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/devtools\>*

*Please report bugs and feature requests in the issue tracker. Please do your best to provide a reproducible test case for bugs.*