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: 3.8.2
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
+Section: vcs
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}
+Suggests: subversion, git-core, cvs, bzr, mercurial, darcs, liburi-perl
+Recommends: libwww-perl, libhtml-parser-perl
Description: a Multiple Repository management tool
- The mr(1) command allows you to register a set of repositories in
- a .mrconfig file, and then checkout, update, or perform other actions on
- all of the repositories at once.
+ 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 git, svn, mecurial, bzr, darcs, and cvs
+ repositories, and support for other revision control systems can easily
+ be added. (There are extensions adding support for unison and git-svn.)
.
- Any mix of revision control systems can be used with mr(1), and you can
- define arbitrary actions for commands like "update", "checkout", or "commit".
+ It is extremely configurable via simple shell scripting. Some examples
+ 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 webcheckout.