ATTRIBUTES¶

• git_remote

  This is the name of the remote to use for the public repository (if you use Git). By default, unsurprisingly, to origin.

• github_http

  This attribute is deprecated. If the remote is a GitHub repository, list only the https url (https://github.com/fayland/dist-zilla-plugin-repository) and not the actual clonable url (git://github.com/fayland/dist-zilla-plugin-repository.git). This used to default to true, but as of 0.16 it defaults to false.

  The CPAN Meta 2 spec defines separate keys for the clonable "url" and web front-end "web". The Meta 1 specs allowed only 1 URL. If you set "github_http" to true, the "url" key will be removed from the v2 metadata, and the v1 metadata will then use the "web" key.

  Instead of setting "github_http", you should use the MetaJSON plugin to include a v2 META.json file with both URLs.

• repository

  You can set this attribute if you want a specific repository instead of the plugin to auto-identify your repository.

  An example would be if you're releasing a module from your fork, and you don't want it to identify your fork, so you can specify the repository explicitly.

  In the Meta 2 spec, this is the "url" key.

• type

  This should be the (lower-case) name of the most common program used to work with the repository, e.g. git, svn, cvs, darcs, bzr or hg. It's normally determined automatically, but you can override it.

• web

  This is a URL pointing to a human-usable web front-end for the repository.