Because Hippo is a thin-layer on top of git, many of it’s commands have equivalents in Hippo, as well as the standard Git command-line still being relevant for interrogating, reviewing the Hippo repository. Simplified maintenance, monitoring include:
[Ref: git-clone ]
A Hippo repository is just a Git repo, with a bit of added structure. You can check out a hippo repository using Git, and inspect or even modify the included files and metadata log:
git clone aldo@remotehost:repo[Ref: git-config ]
Commit Templates provide a framework for consistent documentation to be included with each commit. You can use git’s built-in commit template functionality with hippo.
First, create the template file - in this example: /etc/hippo-commit-template
Then, set the commit template like this:
$ sudo hippo config commit.template /etc/hippo-commit-template[Ref: git-clone ]
Restore a configuration checked into Hippo onto a new system
hippo clone aldo@remotehost:repo