Architecture

At its core MrT is just a git repository that contains a bunch of reusable submodules. mrt-config is just a tool that lets you browse submodules from that repo remotely, and add them to your own repo.

Custom Remotes

By default mrt-config will use UpRev-MrT as the remote repo, but you can actually use any remote repo using the -r option. This allows users to maintain custom sets of modules and private repos.

It works by parsing the .gitmodules file, so it will work with any repo that has submodules, there are no special files required.

mrt.yml files

Even though the tool will work on repos without any special files, mrt.yml files can extend the functionality. If you run the mrt-doc tool in the root of a repo, it will check all of the submodule paths in that repo for mrt.yml files and combine them into a root mrt.yml file. The main use for this is to gather all of the requirements for the submodules, so when you select one in the mrt-config tool, it can automatically select the dependencies.