# Introduction
-[vcsh][vcsh] allows you to maintain several git repositories in one single
+[vcsh][vcsh] allows you to maintain several Git repositories in one single
directory. They all maintain their working trees without clobbering each other
-or interfering otherwise. By default, all git repositories maintained via
-`vcsh` are stored in `$HOME` but you can override this setting if you want to.
+or interfering otherwise. By default, all Git repositories maintained via
+`vcsh` store the actual files in `$HOME` but you can override this setting if
+you want to.
All this means that you can have one repository per application or application
family, i.e. `zsh`, `vim`, `ssh`, etc. This, in turn, allows you to clone
custom sets of configurations onto different machines or even for different
or available to root and you may want to maintain different configuration for
`ssh` on your personal and your work machines.
-`vcsh` was designed with [mr][mr], a tool to manage Multiple Repositories, in
-mind and the two integrate very nicely. `mr` has native support for `vcsh`
-repositories and to `vcsh`, `mr` is just another configuration to track.
-This make setting up any new machine a breeze. It takes literally less than
-five minutes to go from standard installation to fully set up system
-
A lot of modern UNIX-based systems offer pacakges for `vcsh`. In case yours
does not read `INSTALL.md` for install instructions or `PACKAGING.md` to create
a package, yourself. If you do end up packaging `vcsh` please let us know so we
vcsh vim commit -m 'Initial commit of my Vim configuration'
# optionally push your files to a remote
vcsh vim remote add origin <remote>
- vcsh vim push origin master:master
- vcsh vim branch --track master origin/master
+ vcsh vim push -u origin master
+ # from now on you can push additional commits like this
+ vcsh vim push
If all that looks a _lot_ like standard `git`, that's no coincidence; it's
a design feature.
takes care of pulling in and pushing out new data for a variety of version
control systems.
+`vcsh` was designed with [mr][mr], a tool to manage Multiple Repositories, in
+mind and the two integrate very nicely. `mr` has native support for `vcsh`
+repositories and to `vcsh`, `mr` is just another configuration to track.
+This make setting up any new machine a breeze. It takes literally less than
+five minutes to go from standard installation to fully set up system
-The last logical step is to maintain all those new repositores with an automated
-tool instead of tracking them by hand.
This is where `mr` comes in. While the use of `mr` is technically
optional, but it will be an integral part of the proposed system that follows.
## Initialize a new repository "vim"
- vcsh init vcsh
+ vcsh init vim
## Clone an existing repository