X-Git-Url: https://git.madduck.net/code/myrepos.git/blobdiff_plain/6f041c50b40de660ec492575d0ba0a055a01d2bc..8c9ae8c3697688fde086a6a7946456791ddbdff0:/README diff --git a/README b/README index b934894..e63ea80 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,6 +1,26 @@ +mr is a Multiple Repository management tool for git, svn, mercurial, bzr, +darcs, cvs, fossil and veracity. + +Author: Joey Hess +Homepage: http://joeyh.name/code/mr/ + 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. +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.) + +To install mr, just copy mr into your PATH somewhere. + +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". -Just copy mr into your PATH somewhere, if it isn't already, and set up -~/.mrconfig +For further details, and lots of configuration options, see the mr(1) man +page.