X-Git-Url: https://git.madduck.net/code/myrepos.git/blobdiff_plain/de5830150bbcff58309706e023b5a97cbaa14b23..2f0d3d7a85a19b86e809d6589df138efa36cf973:/README diff --git a/README b/README index d16832f..5cb7e13 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,16 +1,26 @@ -mr is a Multiple Repository management tool for Mercurial and Git +mr is a Multiple Repository management tool for git, svn, mercurial, bzr, +darcs, cvs, and fossil. Author: Joey Hess Homepage: http://kitenet.net/~joey/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.) -Just copy mr into your PATH somewhere, if it isn't already, and set up -~/.mrconfig +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. -webcheckout has more dependencies, specifically the LWP::Simple and -HTML::Parser CPAN modules, and optionally the URI module. +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". + +For further details, and lots of configuration options, see the mr(1) man +page.