Source: mr
-Section: utils
+Section: vcs
Priority: optional
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), dpkg-dev (>= 1.9.0)
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), dpkg-dev (>= 1.9.0)
Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
-Standards-Version: 3.7.2
+Standards-Version: 3.9.2
Homepage: http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/mr/
Vcs-Git: git://git.kitenet.net/mr
Package: mr
Architecture: all
-Section: utils
-Depends:
-Suggests: subversion, git-core, cvs, bzr, mercurial
-Description: a Multiple Repository management tool
+Section: vcs
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}
+Suggests: subversion, git-core | git (>= 1:1.7), cvs, bzr, mercurial, darcs, liburi-perl, curl, fossil
+Recommends: libwww-perl, libhtml-parser-perl, perl
+Description: Multiple Repository management tool
The mr(1) command can checkout, update, or perform other actions on
a set of repositories as if they were one combined respository. It
- supports any combination of subversion, git, cvs, and bzr repositories,
- and support for other revision control systems can easily be added.
+ supports any combination of git, svn, mercurial, bzr, darcs, cvs, and
+ fossil repositories, and support for other version control systems
+ can easily be added. (There are extensions adding support for unison
+ and git-svn, among others.)
.
It is extremely configurable via simple shell scripting. Some examples
- of things it can be configured to do include:
+ of things it can do include:
.
* Update a repository no more frequently than once every twelve hours.
* Run an arbitrary command before committing to a repository.
* When updating a git repository, pull from two different upstreams
and merge the two together.
+ * Run several repository updates in parallel, greatly speeding up
+ the update process.
+ * Remember actions that failed due to a laptop being offline, so they
+ can be retried when it comes back online.
+ .
+ This package also includes the webcheckout command.