Using subtree with vcsh and mr?

[Adam Spiers]

On 8 August 2014 15:34, Michael McCracken <michael.mccracken at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I've been happily using vcsh and mr for a while, to manage my emacs,
> zsh, git & bzr configs.
>
> I've hit a problem with integrating third-party code that works with e.g.
> emacs or zsh.
> I suspect I'm missing a straightforward way to solve this, but in searching
> through the vcsh issues on github, it seems like it wasn't solved (or no
> one updated the issue, #27 [1]).
>
> For example, useful stuff like zsh-git-prompt [2] just has a top-level repo
> with files in it, so if I directly add it as a main repo in vcsh, I'll just
> get those files dumped into $HOME. For that one, I 'solved' it by forking
> and creating the directory structure I wanted [3]. However, that's going to
> be a pain for anything that's more actively developed.
>
> For example, emacs-helm [4] is really useful, and it's actively developed,
> but look at all those files in the top level just flooding $HOME.
>
> Any tips?

I don't know how to do this with vcsh, but it works fine with my
approach using mr + GNU Stow:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-stow/2011-12/msg00000.html

Incidentally, zsh-git-prompt looks like nice functionality, but it
annoys me every time I see zsh prompt code not developed using the
built-in prompt theme system which I introduced to zsh core back in
the 1990s.  Following the standardized system would have been so much
nicer for everyone; yet another case of NIH syndrome I guess :-(