X-Git-Url: https://git.madduck.net/code/myrepos.git/blobdiff_plain/080ad719ad774540f7f2f340d14e0bb948c775dc..19919a98a8382dcc8723a0fb01b4a674f2c25214:/debian/control diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index d125ef9..7f21b19 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -11,11 +11,20 @@ Package: mr Architecture: all Section: utils Depends: -Suggests: subversion, git-core, cvs +Suggests: subversion, git-core, cvs, bzr, mercurial, darcs 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 - the repositories as if they were one big respository. + 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, mecurial, + bzr and darcs repositories, and support for other revision control systems + can easily be added. . - 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.