other. This makes setting up any new machine a breeze. It can take literally
less than five minutes to go from standard installation to fully set up system.
-We suggest using [myrepos][myrepos] to manage both `vcsh` and other repositories. The
-`mr` utility takes care of pulling in and pushing out new data for a variety of
-version control systems. While the use of myrepos is technically optional, it will
-be an integral part of the proposed system that follows.
+We suggest using [myrepos][myrepos] to manage both `vcsh` and other
+repositories. The `mr` utility takes care of pulling in and pushing
+out new data for a variety of version control systems. While the use
+of myrepos is technically optional, it will be an integral part of the
+proposed system that follows. For instance, you can use
+[myrepos][myrepos] to track repositories in home such as `.emacs.d`,
+which `mr` can clone and update for you automatically. To do this,
+just add a `mr` configuration file to `availabile.d` with a `checkout`
+command to clone the repo, and set the [title] to the desired
+location, e.g. `$HOME/.emacs.d`. Try the `mr register` command in an
+existing repository, then view `~/.mrconfig` for an example.
## Default Directory Layout
welcome to clone from this repository and fork your own.
[$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/vcsh/repo.d/zsh.git]
- checkout = vcsh clone 'git://github.com/RichiH/zshrc.git' zsh
+ checkout = vcsh clone 'git://github.com/RichiH/zshrc.git' 'zsh'
update = vcsh zsh pull
push = vcsh zsh push
status = vcsh zsh status
gc = vcsh zsh gc
+ [$HOME/.emacs.d]
+ checkout = vcsh clone 'git://github.com/andschwa/emacs.git' '.emacs.d'
+
### config.d
$XDG\_CONFIG\_HOME/mr/available.d contains *all available* repositories. Only
Make sure none of the following files and directories exist for your test
(user). If they do, move them away for now:
-* ~/.gitignore.d
-* ~/.mrconfig
-* $XDG\_CONFIG\_HOME/mr/available.d/mr.vcsh
-* $XDG\_CONFIG\_HOME/mr/available.d/zsh.vcsh
-* $XDG\_CONFIG\_HOME/mr/config.d/mr.vcsh
-* $XDG\_CONFIG\_HOME/vcsh/repo.d/mr.git/
+* `~/.gitignore.d`
+* `~/.mrconfig`
+* `$XDG\_CONFIG\_HOME/mr/available.d/mr.vcsh`
+* `$XDG\_CONFIG\_HOME/mr/available.d/zsh.vcsh`
+* `$XDG\_CONFIG\_HOME/mr/config.d/mr.vcsh`
+* `$XDG\_CONFIG\_HOME/vcsh/repo.d/mr.git/`
All of the files are part of the template repository, the directory is where
the template will be stored.
If you prefer to use the devel package that installs the git HEAD version it
is available [here](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vcsh-git/).
-#### Mac OSX
+#### Mac OS X
Formulas are available for vcsh as well as git and myrepos through [homebrew](http://brew.sh). The
vcsh formula is set to depend on myrepos, so you only need one install command:
ln -s ../available.d/* .
-myrepos is used to actually retrieve configs, etc
+`myrepos` is used to actually retrieve configs, etc
~ % cat ~/.mrconfig
[DEFAULT]
- # adapt /usr/share/mr/vcsh to your system if needed
- include = cat /usr/share/mr/vcsh
include = cat $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mr/config.d/*
~ % echo $XDG_CONFIG_HOME
/home/richih/.config