install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%

brew install mr

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Nixverified · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#mr

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/mr/mr/package.nix · source: api.github.com

openSUSE zypperverified · 92%

sudo zypper install mr

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · mr · source: download.opensuse.org

Fedora dnfverified · 92%

sudo dnf install myrepos

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · myrepos · source: dl.fedoraproject.org

Arch Linux pacmanverified · 92%

sudo pacman -S myrepos

Arch Linux sync databases · myrepos · source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

overview

Package summary

Multiple Repository management tool

Project links

Commands and aliases

mr
webcheckout

history

Project history and usage

myrepos, installed as the mr command, is Joey Hess's Perl tool for managing many version-control repositories as a group. Its README describes the problem it solves: developers often have many repositories, need to update or push them together, and need repository-specific workflows. mr records repositories in ~/.mrconfig, can discover chained .mrconfig files, and runs commands recursively over repositories below the working directory.

Project history

Technically, mr sits above individual VCS tools rather than replacing them. It supports Git, Subversion, Mercurial, Bazaar, Darcs, CVS, Fossil, and Veracity, and exposes familiar cross-repository commands such as checkout, update, status, diff, commit, fetch, push, grep, and arbitrary run commands. The project emphasizes being self-contained, with the main mr command depending only on basic Perl, which made it easy to keep in ~/bin or a version-controlled home directory.

How it is used

Its adoption niche is the long-tail developer and sysadmin workflow of maintaining many unrelated repositories without adopting a monorepo or a heavyweight workspace manager. The project site documents parallel updates, offline retry of failed actions, per-repository command overrides, global custom commands, and combining related repositories into a logical repository group. In package managers it appears under both mr and myrepos names, alongside developer tools rather than VCS implementations themselves.

Sources

security posture

No protected-tool coverage found yet

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for mr. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.

Install behavior

No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 1 platform targets.
Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix: ~/.mrconfig./.mrconfig

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`mr`	cli	global executable
`webcheckout`	cli	global executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-08-04

manager version1.20180726

manager updated

local dataok

upstreamnot checked

latest detectednot detected

https://myrepos.branchable.com/

infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://myrepos.branchable.com/none confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:mr
Version	1.20180726
Package manager	Homebrew
Package manager page	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/mr
Homepage	https://myrepos.branchable.com/
Upstream docs	https://myrepos.branchable.com/
License	GPL-2.0-or-later
Source archive	git://myrepos.branchable.com/
Build dependencies	pod2man
Uses from macOS	perl
Bottle	available (on all)
Homebrew post-install	not defined
Service	none declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	mr
Aliases	myrepos
Version Scheme	0
Revision	1
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Nix95%

mr

nix profile install nixpkgs#mr

normalized package name match
Matched by: Mr

nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mr/mr/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

dnf95%

myrepos 1.20180726-24.fc45

A multiple SCM repository management tool

https://github.com/joeyh/myrepos

sudo dnf install myrepos

License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Category: Unspecified
Architecture: noarch
Source Package: myrepos
3 dependencies
2 provides
normalized package name match
Matched by: Mr

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: myrepos from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/210a2053c8e007daf9ae39c2a21daaed9b2ddd07d63ecffa597050361e73650c-primary.xml.zst

pacman95%

myrepos 1.20180726-8

Multiple Repository management tool

https://myrepos.branchable.com

sudo pacman -S myrepos

License: GPL2
Architecture: any
1 dependencies
2 provides
13 optional deps
normalized package name match
Matched by: Mr

Arch Linux sync databases · geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com · Arch Linux sync databases: myrepos from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

zypper95%

mr 1.20180726-1.19

Version control repository manager

https://myrepos.branchable.com

sudo zypper install mr

License: GPL-2.0-only
Category: Development/Tools/Version Control
Architecture: noarch
Source Package: mr
2 dependencies
1 provides
normalized package name match
Matched by: Mr

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: mr from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/mr.yml

Used sources

cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated configuration and credential file locations
curated package history
external package-manager database matches
package relationship graph
package version freshness
package-page enrichment
pkg.so package database
pkgdb category and tag curation

Install mr with Homebrew, Nix, zypper, dnf, pacman