X-Git-Url: https://git.madduck.net/code/myrepos.git/blobdiff_plain/c1903b7c2e589ce4379f1f9fb63b36b2fab274eb..ccbea70f8b3b81a06d9c417eebea3f46992c8167:/debian/control diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index 075a283..3fdfe68 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -11,11 +11,19 @@ Package: mr Architecture: all Section: utils Depends: -Suggests: subversion, git-core, cvs, bzr +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 - 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, and bzr 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 be configured to 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.