default section needs to come first

[code/myrepos.git] / mr

diff --git a/mr b/mr
index 441c2e299e90cd4c4425d9eb4c513f1e342e94ad..470927afa04094d00d1a5a61f64db4bc11906f20 100755 (executable)
--- a/mr
+++ b/mr
@@ -120,11 +120,22 @@ registers several additional repositories.
 
 The .mrconfig file uses a variant of the INI file format. Lines starting with
 "#" are comments. Lines ending with "\" are continued on to the next line.
-Sections specify where each repository is located, relative to the
+
+The "default" section allows setting default values for the sections that
+come after it.
+
+The "alias" section allows adding aliases for actions. Each parameter
+is an alias, and its value is the action to use.
+
+All other sections specify where each repository is located, relative to the
 directory that contains the .mrconfig file.
 
 Within a section, each parameter defines a shell command to run to handle a
-given action. Note that these shell commands are run in a "set -e" shell
+given action. mr contains default handlers for the "update", "status", and
+"commit" actions, so normally you only need to specify what to do for
+"checkout".
+
+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
@@ -141,14 +152,6 @@ should avoid chaining from repositories with untrusted committers.) The
 command, this can be a useful way to define shell functions for other commands
 to use.
 
-The "default" section allows setting up default handlers for each action,
-and is overridden by the contents of other sections. mr contains default
-handlers for the "update", "status", and "commit" actions, so normally
-you only need to specify what to do for "checkout".
-
-The "alias" section allows adding aliases for actions. Each parameter
-is an alias, and its value is the action to use.
-
 For example:
 
   [src]
@@ -301,7 +304,9 @@ sub action {
        }
 
        if (exists $config{$topdir}{$subdir}{skip}) {
-               my $ret=system($lib.$config{$topdir}{$subdir}{skip});
+               my $test="set -e;".$lib.$config{$topdir}{$subdir}{skip};
+               print "mr $action: running skip test $test\n" if $verbose;
+               my $ret=system($test);
                if ($ret >> 8 == 0) {
                        print "mr $action: $dir skipped per config file\n" if $verbose;
                        push @skipped, $dir;
@@ -490,7 +495,7 @@ status = \
        elif [ -d "$MR_REPO"/.git ]; then \
                git status "$@" || true; \
        elif [ -d "$MR_REPO"/CVS ]; then \
-               echo "cvs status not run (too ugly)"; \
+               cvs status "$@"; \
        else \
                error "unknown repo type"; \
        fi