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cloudhead 4605348d68 cli: From "tracking" to "seeding" and "following"
Split the commands and change the naming.

* Tracking a repo is now called "seeding"
* Tracking a peer is now called "following"

In this commit, we don't change most of the internal code, only the
user-facing part.
2023-12-06 09:56:57 +01:00

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Using `rad clone` is useful if we want to create and fetch a project
that exists on Radicle, but perhaps we're in a scenario where we may
already have an existing Git repository and so a full clone is not
necessary.
Instead, we want to fetch the project from the network into our local
storage. In this scenario, we know that the project is
`rad:z42hL2jL4XNk6K8oHQaSWfMgCL7ji`. In order to fetch it, we first
have to update our seeding policy for the project.
```
$ rad seed rad:z42hL2jL4XNk6K8oHQaSWfMgCL7ji --no-fetch
✓ Seeding policy updated for rad:z42hL2jL4XNk6K8oHQaSWfMgCL7ji with scope 'all'
```
Now that the project is seeding we can fetch it and we will have it in
our local storage. Note that the `seed` command can also be told to fetch
by passing the `--fetch` option.
```
$ rad sync --fetch rad:z42hL2jL4XNk6K8oHQaSWfMgCL7ji
✓ Fetching rad:z42hL2jL4XNk6K8oHQaSWfMgCL7ji from z6MknSL…StBU8Vi..
✓ Fetched repository from 1 seed(s)
```
However, we don't have a local fork of the project. We can follow this
up with [rad-fork](rad-fork.md).