From f7ed26bbe30b1c38e2c9767bff9c791631713fe7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:07:11 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] improved checkout docs mentioing bzr bound checkouts --- mr | 16 ++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/mr b/mr index 340489c..61e2102 100755 --- a/mr +++ b/mr @@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ This obsolete flag is ignored. Here is an example .mrconfig file: [src] - checkout = svn co svn://svn.example.com/src/trunk src + checkout = svn checkout svn://svn.example.com/src/trunk src chain = true [src/linux-2.6] @@ -317,14 +317,18 @@ will be passed through the shell for expansion. For example, Within a section, each parameter defines a shell command to run to handle a given action. mr contains default handlers for "update", "status", -"commit", and other standard actions. Normally you only need to specify what -to do for "checkout". +"commit", and other standard actions. + +Normally you only need to specify what to do for "checkout". Here you +specify the command to run in order to create a checkout of the repository. +The command will be run in the parent directory, and must create the +repository's directory. So use "git clone", "svn checkout", "bzr branch" +or "bzr checkout" (for a bound branch), etc. Note that these shell commands are run in a "set -e" shell environment, where any additional parameters you pass are available in -"$@". The "checkout" command is run in the parent of the repository -directory, since the repository isn't checked out yet. All other commands -are run inside the repository, though not necessarily at the top of it. +"$@". All commands other than "checkout" are run inside the repository, +though not necessarily at the top of it. The "MR_REPO" environment variable is set to the path to the top of the repository. (For the "register" action, "MR_REPO" is instead set to the -- 2.39.5