added repo.cmd for windows + made repo file self-contained + updated readme

README.md

 
 ## Git-repo for Windows and Linux ##
 
-This is a portable version (Windows 7+, Unix) of the [git-repo](http://source.android.com/source/version-control.html) tool.
+This is a portable version (Windows 7+, Linux) of the [git-repo](http://source.android.com/source/version-control.html) tool.
 
 Git-repo was developed by Google for their Android platform in order to manage multiple Git repositories with a single tool.
 For example it is possible to view the changes of all configured git repositories with a single command: repo diff.
 
-Since the original git-repo tool is supposed to work only on Unix systems, therefore uses platform dependent features,
+Since the original git-repo tool is supposed to work only on Linux systems, therefore uses platform dependent features,
 Windows users have no viable solution for handling huge progjects which include many git repositories.
 
 The mainly used, platform dependet features are: symbolic links as well as the creation of new child processes with fork().
 
+
 ### Requirements ###
 
-* Git (especially Git Bash)
-* Python 3+
-* Windows 7+ (symbolic link support) or Unix like system
+* [Python 3+](http://python.org/download/releases/3.3.0/)
+* [Git](http://git-scm.com/)
+* Windows 7+ or Linux
+
+### Setup ###
 
-### Getting started ###
+* Add to Windows environment variable PATH
+    * full additions (explained further on)
+        ;C:\Python33C;\Program Files (x86)\Git\cmd;C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin;%USERPROFILE%
+    * Python3.3
+    * Git cmd folder
+    * Git bin folder
+    * repo script default path
+* Start "Git Bash", Download repo script
+    curl https://github.com/esrlabs/git-repo/repo > ~/repo
+    curl https://github.com/esrlabs/git-repo/repo.cmd > ~/repo.cmd
 
-WARNING: It is recommended to use the provided 'Git Bash' in Windows.
+### Usage ###
 
-For more detailed instructions regaring usage, visit [git-repo](http://source.android.com/source/version-control.html).
+For more detailed instructions regarding usage, visit [git-repo](http://source.android.com/source/version-control.html).
 Since this version does not break any features of the original repo, the following instructions are exactly the same
-found on the referenced Android git-repo tool page.
+found on the referenced Android [git-repo](http://source.android.com/source/version-control.html) tool page.
 
 * setup a git repository (url refered to as $MANIFEST), containing a manifest file similar to Androids [default.xml](https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest/+/master/default.xml)
-* Clone this git repository to a preferred directory ($REPO)
-
-    git clone https://github.com/esrlabs/git-repo.git
-
-* Change to the root of the directory
+* Change to the root folder of your project
 * Initialize repo with the manifest url
 
-    $REPO/repo init -u $MANIFEST
+    repo init -u $MANIFEST
 
 * Sync to get all repositories
 
-    $REPO/repo sync
+    repo sync
+
+* do stuff in git repositories..
+* view diff, status, .. (in root folder)
 
-* ..
+    repo status
+    repo diff
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repo

 #!/usr/bin/env python
 
 import sys
-import portable
+
+# copied from portable
+def stream2str(stream):
+    return str(stream, encoding='UTF-8')
 
 if sys.version_info[0] < 3:
   print('git-repo is written for python3, your version is %s, please upgrade from www.python.org.' % sys.version)
@@ -262,7 +265,7 @@ def _CheckGitVersion():
           file=sys.stderr)
     raise CloneFailure()
 
-  ver_str = portable.stream2str(proc.stdout.read()).strip()
+  ver_str = stream2str(proc.stdout.read()).strip()
   proc.stdout.close()
   proc.wait()
 
@@ -495,7 +498,7 @@ def _Verify(cwd, branch, quiet):
                           stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                           stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
                           cwd = cwd)
-  cur = portable.stream2str(proc.stdout.read()).strip()
+  cur = stream2str(proc.stdout.read()).strip()
   proc.stdout.close()
 
   proc.stderr.read()
@@ -668,7 +671,7 @@ def _SetDefaultsTo(gitdir):
                            'HEAD'],
                           stdout = subprocess.PIPE,
                           stderr = subprocess.PIPE)
-  REPO_REV = portable.stream2str(proc.stdout.read()).strip()
+  REPO_REV = stream2str(proc.stdout.read()).strip()
   proc.stdout.close()
 
   proc.stderr.read()

repo.cmd

+@bash -c "repo %*"
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