Support chaining to absolute paths.

[code/myrepos.git] / mr

diff --git a/mr b/mr
index 340489cd2a745189d27385e12f512b734dd43d9f..97720d456feb136c2f6dc91eb4ef02a1a97d6775 100755 (executable)
--- a/mr
+++ b/mr
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ This obsolete flag is ignored.
 Here is an example .mrconfig file:
 
   [src]
-  checkout = svn co svn://svn.example.com/src/trunk src
+  checkout = svn checkout svn://svn.example.com/src/trunk src
   chain = true
 
   [src/linux-2.6]
@@ -317,14 +317,18 @@ will be passed through the shell for expansion. For example,
 
 Within a section, each parameter defines a shell command to run to handle a
 given action. mr contains default handlers for "update", "status",
-"commit", and other standard actions. Normally you only need to specify what
-to do for "checkout".
+"commit", and other standard actions.
+
+Normally you only need to specify what to do for "checkout". Here you
+specify the command to run in order to create a checkout of the repository.
+The command will be run in the parent directory, and must create the
+repository's directory. So use "git clone", "svn checkout", "bzr branch"
+or "bzr checkout" (for a bound branch), etc.
 
 Note that these shell commands are run in a "set -e" shell
 environment, where any additional parameters you pass are available in
-"$@". The "checkout" command is run in the parent of the repository
-directory, since the repository isn't checked out yet. All other commands
-are run inside the repository, though not necessarily at the top of it.
+"$@". All commands other than "checkout" are run inside the repository,
+though not necessarily at the top of it.
 
 The "MR_REPO" environment variable is set to the path to the top of the
 repository. (For the "register" action, "MR_REPO" is instead set to the 
@@ -751,6 +755,9 @@ sub hook {
                        print STDERR "mr $hook: received signal ".($? & 127)."\n";
                        return ABORT;
                }
+               else {
+                       return FAILED;
+               }
        }
 
        return OK;
@@ -1231,21 +1238,26 @@ sub loadconfig {
                                        $knownactions{$parameter}=1;
                                }
                                if ($parameter eq 'chain' &&
-                                   length $dir && $section ne "DEFAULT" &&
-                                   -e $dir.$section."/.mrconfig") {
-                                       my $ret=system($value);
-                                       if ($ret != 0) {
-                                               if (($? & 127) == 2) {
-                                                       print STDERR "mr: chain test interrupted\n";
-                                                       exit 2;
+                                   length $dir && $section ne "DEFAULT") {
+                                       my $chaindir="$section";
+                                       if ($chaindir !~ m!/!) {
+                                               $chaindir=$dir.$chaindir;
+                                       }
+                                       if (-e "$chaindir/.mrconfig") {
+                                               my $ret=system($value);
+                                               if ($ret != 0) {
+                                                       if (($? & 127) == 2) {
+                                                               print STDERR "mr: chain test interrupted\n";
+                                                               exit 2;
+                                                       }
+                                                       elsif ($? & 127) {
+                                                               print STDERR "mr: chain test received signal ".($? & 127)."\n";
+                                                       }
                                                }
-                                               elsif ($? & 127) {
-                                                       print STDERR "mr: chain test received signal ".($? & 127)."\n";
+                                               else {
+                                                       push @toload, ["$chaindir/.mrconfig", $chaindir];
                                                }
                                        }
-                                       else {
-                                               push @toload, $dir.$section."/.mrconfig";
-                                       }
                                }
                        }
                }
@@ -1254,8 +1266,8 @@ sub loadconfig {
                }
        }
 
-       foreach (@toload) {
-               loadconfig($_);
+       foreach my $c (@toload) {
+               loadconfig(@$c);
        }
 }