X-Git-Url: https://git.madduck.net/code/myrepos.git/blobdiff_plain/2467756e9e048a4579ee65c9980672316e12ee24..94c5d6ef4e7fe07d83d181c5850ef5a5b58e6112:/mr

diff --git a/mr b/mr
index 97720d4..f1ca9f6 100755
--- a/mr
+++ b/mr
@@ -339,6 +339,9 @@ The "MR_CONFIG" environment variable is set to the .mrconfig file
 that defines the repo being acted on, or, if the repo is not yet in a config
 file, the .mrconfig file that should be modified to register the repo.
 
+The "MR_ACTION" environment variable is set to the command being run
+(update, checkout, etc).
+
 A few parameters have special meanings:
 
 =over 4
@@ -354,8 +357,21 @@ mr is run by joey. The second uses the hours_since function
 (included in mr's built-in library) to skip updating the repo unless it's
 been at least 12 hours since the last update.
 
+  [mystuff]
+  checkout = ...
   skip = test `whoami` != joey
+
+  [linux]
+  checkout = ...
   skip = [ "$1" = update ] && ! hours_since "$1" 12
+ 
+Another way to use skip is for a lazy checkout. This makes mr skip
+operating on a repo unless it already exists. To enable the 
+repo, you have to explicitly check it out (using "mr -d foo checkout").
+
+  [foo]
+  checkout = ...
+  skip = lazy
 
 =item order
 
@@ -579,6 +595,7 @@ sub action {
 	my $is_update=($action =~ /update/);
 
 	$ENV{MR_REPO}=$dir;
+	$ENV{MR_ACTION}=$action;
 	
 	foreach my $testname ("skip", "deleted") {
 		my $testcommand=findcommand($testname, $dir, $topdir, $subdir, $is_checkout);
@@ -1703,6 +1720,13 @@ lib =
 	is_bzr_checkout() {
 		LANG=C bzr info | egrep -q '^Checkout'
 	}
+	lazy() {
+		if [ "$MR_ACTION" = checkout ] || [ -d "$MR_REPO" ]; then
+			return 1
+		else
+			return 0
+		fi
+	}
 
 svn_test = test -d "$MR_REPO"/.svn
 git_test = test -d "$MR_REPO"/.git