X-Git-Url: https://git.madduck.net/code/vcsh.git/blobdiff_plain/765f92fa268582670391cd021fe77a744ef95459..daa46bd203cd55fde09383f0c8c13440853d7ef7:/README.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index a7dab9d..743ed68 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -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 `$HOME` but you can override this setting if +you want to. All this means that you can have one repository per application or application family, i.e. `zsh`, `vim`, `ssh`, etc. This, in turn, allows you to clone custom sets of configurations onto different machines or even for different @@ -25,12 +26,6 @@ For example, you may not need to have your `mplayer` configuration on a server or available to root and you may want to maintain different configuration for `ssh` on your personal and your work machines. -`vcsh` was designed with [mr][mr], a tool to manage Multiple Repositories, in -mind and the two integrate very nicely. `mr` has native support for `vcsh` -repositories and to `vcsh`, `mr` is just another configuration to track. -This make setting up any new machine a breeze. It takes literally less than -five minutes to go from standard installation to fully set up system - A lot of modern UNIX-based systems offer pacakges for `vcsh`. In case yours does not read `INSTALL.md` for install instructions or `PACKAGING.md` to create a package, yourself. If you do end up packaging `vcsh` please let us know so we @@ -55,8 +50,10 @@ Let's say you want to version control your `vim` configuration: vcsh vim add ~/.vimrc ~/.vim vcsh vim commit -m 'Initial commit of my Vim configuration' # optionally push your files to a remote - vcsh vim add origin REMOTE - vcsh vim push origin master:master + vcsh vim remote add origin + vcsh vim push -u origin master + # from now on you can push additional commits like this + vcsh vim push If all that looks a _lot_ like standard `git`, that's no coincidence; it's a design feature. @@ -64,7 +61,10 @@ a design feature. # Overview -## Comparison to Other Solutions +## From zero to vcsh + +You put a lot of effort into your configuration and want to both protect and +distribute this configuration. Most people who decide to put their dotfiles under version control start with a single repository in `$HOME`, adding all their dotfiles (and possibly more) @@ -77,15 +77,25 @@ flexibility to check out only certain repositories on different hosts. The downsides of this approach are the necessary manual steps of cloning and symlinking the individual repositories. -`vcsh` takes this second approach one step further. It expects -single-purpose repositories and stores them in a hidden directory (similar -to `~/.dotfiles`). However, it does not create symbolic links in `$HOME`; it -puts the actual files right into `$HOME`. +`vcsh` takes this approach one step further. It enables single-purpose +repositories and stores them in a hidden directory. However, it does not create +symbolic links in `$HOME`; it puts the actual files right into `$HOME`. + +As `vcsh` allows you to put an arbitrary number of distinct repositories into +your `$HOME`, you will end up with a lot of repositories very quickly. -Furthermore, by making use of [mr][mr], it makes it very easy to enable/disable -and clone a large number of repositories. The use of `mr` is technically -optional (see section 4.3), but it will be an integral part of the proposed -system that follows. +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 + +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. ## Default Directory Layout @@ -167,7 +177,7 @@ $XDG\_CONFIG\_HOME/vcsh/repo.d is the directory where all git repositories which are under vcsh's control are located. Since their working trees are configured to be in $HOME, the files contained in those repositories will be put in $HOME directly. -Of course, [mr] [1] will work with this layout if configured according to this +Of course, [mr] [mr] will work with this layout if configured according to this document (see above). vcsh will check if any file it would want to create exists. If it exists, vcsh @@ -346,7 +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 + +## 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 + 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 @@ -372,12 +416,11 @@ git-status. A fix for this problem is being worked on. ### Using vcsh without mr -vcsh encourages you to use [mr] [1]. It helps you manage a large number of +vcsh encourages you to use [mr][mr]. It helps you manage a large number of 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`