X-Git-Url: https://git.madduck.net/code/myrepos.git/blobdiff_plain/2dd79de8a50107eb091bf306df118bac3953e379..1992d2881c6f522d3842ba4de42c0fd02c62b703:/README diff --git a/README b/README index 8758437..750186d 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,16 +1,33 @@ -mr is a Multiple Repository management tool for Mercurial and Git +myrepos, a tool to manage all your version control repos + +You have a lot of version control repositories. Sometimes you want to +update them all at once. Or push out all your local changes. You use +special command lines in some repositories to implement specific workflows. +Myrepos provides a `mr` command, which is a tool to manage all your version +control repositories. + +It supports git, svn, mercurial, bzr, darcs, cvs, fossil and veracity. Author: Joey Hess -Homepage: http://git.kitenet.net/?p=mr.git;a=summary +Homepage: http://myrepos.branchable.com/ + +The mr command is intended to be very self-contained, since it might be +useful to check it into ~/bin when keeping your home in version control. It +has no dependencies aside from basic perl. (The included webcheckout +command has more dependencies, specifically the LWP::Simple and +HTML::Parser CPAN modules, and optionally the URI module.) -mr is intended to be very self-contained, since it might be useful to check -it into ~/bin when keeping your home in version control. It has no -dependencies aside from basic perl. +To install mr, just copy mr into your PATH somewhere. -Just copy mr into your PATH somewhere, if it isn't already, and set up -~/.mrconfig +To get started using mr, perhaps you already have some checked out +repositories. Go into each one and run "mr register". Now mr has +a list of them in ~/.mrconfig, which you can edit later to tune its +operation. ----- +Suppose you've cd'd to ~/src, and it has many repositories under it. +To update them all, run "mr update". To commit any pending changes in +each, run "mr commit". To check the status of each, you could run +"mr status". -webcheckout has more dependencies, specifically the LWP::Simple and -HTML::Parser CPAN modules, and optionally the URI module. +For further details, and lots of configuration options, see the mr(1) man +page or the website, http://myrepos.branchable.com/