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=Managing configs with <code>vcsh</code> and <code>mr</code>=

<code>vcsh</code> [https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh] is a utility that allows you to create multiple git repositories to store configuration files in your home directory.
It solves the problem of having to use symlinks, and is a very nice tool. It works well with another tool named <code>mr</code> [https://github.com/joeyh/myrepos] that allows
you to synchronize all of your config repos with a single command.

==Common Tasks==

===Adding new repo===

Let say you want to add a repo for tracking your zsh configuration.
First, create a gitignore file for the repo so you can just do <code>git add .</code>

  > vim ~/.gitignore.d/zsh
  ...

Add the following lines

  /*
  !/.zsh


Now create the repository and push to a remote

  > vcsh init zsh    # create the repo
  > vcsh zsh add .   # add all files not masked by ~/.gitignore.d/zsh
  > vcsh zsh commit  # commit files
  > vcsh zsh remote add origin ssh://user@host/repo/with/write/access  # create remote repo
  > vcsh zsh push --set-upstream origin master # push to the origin and setup tracking

Next, add the repository to the <code>mr</code> configuration.
 
  > vim ~/.config/mr/available.d/zsh.git
 ...

Add the following lines

  [$HOME/.config/vcsh/repo.d/zsh.git]
  checkout = vcsh clone ssh://user@host/repo/with/write/access zsh