#763129 Wishlist: way of doing a checkout on a repo when skip=lazy is set that is easier to remember

#763129#5
Date:
2014-09-28 02:11:44 UTC
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I'm using mr to manage (among other things) my ~/Code directory, where
all the version control repositories for code I'm interested in live. I
currently have 35 repositories listed for the .mrconfig for that
directory, and more are added every month, so I don't want to have
checkouts of all of them on all my computers. So I use "skip=lazy" in
the default section and checkout the repositories that I need on demand.

My problem is, I can never remember the combination of options to
checkout a repository when they have been marked with "lazy". The first
thing I think of (the most logical, in my mind), is to do "mr checkout
NAME_OF_REPO_HERE". In my mind, this is much easier to remember than "mr
--force -d NAME_OF_REPO_HERE checkout". Would you consider extending the
"checkout" command to accept a list of repository names, and operate on
those explicitly listed repositories with --force? It would make my life
easier...

Thanks for reading,

  Christian

PS I looked for a way to having mr tell me which version it was at, but
I didn't find a way. Hence the lack of "Version" header above.