mr: chaining to absolute paths

[Joey Hess]

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.

> I'm beginning to suspect that the way I imagine using mr is
> fundamentally different to everyone else's way.  Your previous point
> about mr working best with locality of reference (i.e. each .mrconfig
> being in a parent or near ancestor of the directories containing the
> repos it manages) also contributed to this suspicion.  I can
> understand how that makes for clean .mrconfig files with short
> relative paths in the section headers, but I can't understand how you
> could then version control all your .mrconfig files and share them
> across computers.  And if you can't, then doesn't that discard a very
> large part of the advantage of using mr in the first place?
> 
> 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:

~
	.mrconfig
	doc
		.mrconfig
		(various document repositories)
	src
		.mrconfig
		(many package sources)
		d-i
			.mrconfig
	lib/backup
		.mrconfig (only exists on a few machines, various repositories)
	

>   - How many mrconfig files and mr-managed repos do you have?

190 repos, mostly in src
 
>   - Do you track your mrconfig files with version control?

yes

>   - 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.

-- 
see shy jo
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