macOS
Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install mrlocal Homebrew formula metadata
brew / rank 5467
Install mr with Homebrew, Nix, zypper, dnf, pacman
Multiple Repository management tool. Version 1.20180726 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#mr.
install
Additional install commands
Linux
Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#mrnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/mr/mr/package.nix · source: api.github.com
openSUSE zypperverified · 92%
sudo zypper install mropenSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · mr · source: download.opensuse.org
Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install myreposFedora Rawhide package metadata · myrepos · source: dl.fedoraproject.org
Arch Linux pacmanverified · 92%
sudo pacman -S myreposArch 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. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
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 | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
webcheckout | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
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 generated2026-08-03
manager version1.20180726
manager updated
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:mr |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.20180726 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://myrepos.branchable.com/ |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
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
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
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
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
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.
Used sources
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- pkg.so package database
- pkgdb category and tag curation