From: Richard Hartmann Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 06:47:27 +0000 (+0200) Subject: README.md: Move mr farther down X-Git-Url: https://git.madduck.net/code/vcsh.git/commitdiff_plain/daa46bd203cd55fde09383f0c8c13440853d7ef7?ds=sidebyside README.md: Move mr farther down --- diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index a83325d..743ed68 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -13,10 +13,11 @@ vcsh - Version Control System for $HOME - multiple Git repositories in $HOME # Introduction -[vcsh][vcsh] allows you to maintain several git repositories in one single +[vcsh][vcsh] allows you to maintain several Git repositories in one single directory. They all maintain their working trees without clobbering each other -or interfering otherwise. By default, all git repositories maintained via -`vcsh` are stored in `$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 @@ -93,9 +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.