An experimental Cargo subcommand to access and manipulate a registry index.

See reg-index for the corresponding library that implements this command's functionality.

cargo install cargo-index

This requires at a minimum Cargo 1.70.

The cargo index command provides several sub-commands:

Run the sub-command with --help to get more information.

Example of creating an index and manually adding a new package:

1. cargo index init --dl https://example.com --index index

   This creates a new git repository in the directory index with the appropriate config.json file.

2. cargo new foo

   Create a sample project to add.

3. cd foo

4. cargo index add --index ../index --index-url https://example.com -- --allow-dirty

   Adds the foo package to the index.

5. cargo index list --index ../index -p foo

   Shows the JSON metadata for every version of foo in the index.