X-Git-Url: https://git.madduck.net/code/myrepos.git/blobdiff_plain/8ddd51f2c761cb3fc33bd9c8aa509992e1561490..d752aeb38d80a8342ba88c5fe5483be61b987182:/debian/control diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index 7631b29..eee97c2 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -11,11 +11,20 @@ Package: mr Architecture: all Section: utils Depends: -Suggests: subversion, git-core +Suggests: subversion, git-core, cvs, bzr, mercurial 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 - all of the repositories at once. + 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, bzr, and mercurial + 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.