On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 12:22:48PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Adam Spiers wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 05:02:13PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Adam Spiers wrote: > > > > I notice that chaining to absolute paths does not work, e.g.: > > > > Is this a feature or a bug? I would have thought it would be useful > > > > to chain to absolute paths. > > > > > > Probably because nobody noticed since when you're in ~/foo/bar, > > > ~/foo/bar/.mrconfig will be read anyway without chaining. > > I probably meant to say ~/foo/.mrconfig fwiw.
Ah, OK. [snipped] > > I guess it would really help me if one or two people would be kind > > enough to briefly describe the way they use mr, e.g. > > > > - How is your home directory structured, i.e. where do your mrconfig > > files and repos live within it, and which mrconfig files point to > > which repos? > > Sure: [snipped] Thanks, this is really useful! > > - Do you track your mrconfig files with version control? > > yes How do you do that? Are they all in one repo? How do you get each one into the right subdirectory of ~ ? > > - Do you frequently use the -d or -c options? > > never > > > - Do you usually cd to a particular directory before running mr, and > > if so, why? > > I always run mr in the directory I want to affect. Sometimes this > directory contains many repositories, sometimes only one. The point of > mr is I don't need to care how many underlying repositories there are. > If I run it in ~/src/d-i, I want to act on d-i; in > ~/src/d-i/package/main-menu I'm only dealing with one package; in ~/src > I want to act on all my source repos. Very helpful and food for thought, thanks again. _______________________________________________ vcs-home mailing list vcs-home@lists.madduck.net http://lists.madduck.net/listinfo/vcs-home