README.md: Move mr farther down

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@@ -7,16 +7,17 @@ vcsh - Version Control System for $HOME - multiple Git repositories in $HOME
 2. [30 second howto](#30-second-howto)
 3. [Overview](#overview)
 4. [Getting Started](#getting-started)
-5. [Usage](#usage)
+5. [Usage Exmaples](#usage-examples)
 6. [Contact](#contact)
 
 
 # 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
@@ -25,12 +26,6 @@ For example, you may not need to have your `mplayer` configuration on a server
 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
@@ -55,8 +50,10 @@ Let's say you want to version control your `vim` configuration:
     vcsh vim add ~/.vimrc ~/.vim
     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 remote add origin <remote>
+    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.
@@ -91,9 +88,12 @@ To manage both `vcsh` and other repositories, we suggest using [mr](mr). `mr`
 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.
 
@@ -356,7 +356,41 @@ mr is used to actually retrieve configs, etc
     ~ % mr -j 5 up
 
 
-# Usage
+# Usage Examples
+
+All examples in this section will use the short form of `vcsh` which is the
+simplest way to interface with it. If you don't know what that means simply
+ignore this fact for now and follow the examples.
+
+## Initialize a new repository "vim"
+
+    vcsh init vim
+
+## Clone an existing repository
+
+    vcsh clone <remote> <repository_name>
+
+## Add files to repository "vim"
+
+    vcsh vim add ~/.vimrc ~/.vim
+    vcsh vim commit -m 'Update Vim configuration'
+
+## Add a remote for repository "vim"
+
+    vcsh vim remote add origin <remote>
+    vcsh vim push origin master:master
+    vcsh vim branch --track master origin/master
+
+## Push to remote of repository "vim"
+
+    vcsh vim push
+
+## Pull from remote of repository "vim"
+
+    vcsh vim pull
+
+
+# mr usage ; will be factored out & rewritten
 
 ### Keeping repositories Up-to-Date
 
@@ -387,7 +421,6 @@ repositories by running the necessary vcsh commands for you. You may choose not
 to use mr, in which case you will have to run those commands manually or by
 other means.
 
-#### A Few Examples
 
 To initialize a new repository: `vcsh init zsh`