bluekeyes / dotosaurus

Protecting dotfiles and such from extinction by meteorite

Dotosaurus

Protecting dotfiles and such from extinction by meteorite (or harddrive failure).

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Installation

Bootstrap

If you haven't already cloned the repository, consider using the bootstrap script. This script will clone the repository and its submodules, then run the installation script described below.

You can use either curl or wget to get the bootstrap script

curl -L https://github.com/bluekeyes/dotosaurus/raw/master/scripts/bootstrap.sh | sh
wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/bluekeyes/dotosaurus/raw/master/scripts/bootstrap.sh -O - | sh

Install

To install dotosaurus, run

./scripts/dotosaurus install

Note that this requires Python 3. You don't need to run this script if you already ran the bootstrap script.

If any dotfiles already exist, the command will fail. If this happens, rerun with either the --force or --backup flag.

If you have any local changes, make them and commit them on the local branch.

Updating

To update dotosaurus, run

./scripts/dotosaurus update

Note that this requires Python 3.

If you have local changes that conflict with new remote changes, the command will fail and ask you to resolve merge conflicts manually. Once the conflicts are resolved run

./scripts/dotosaurus update --continue

to finish the update.

dotosaurus's Issues

Symlinking .gitconfig breaks Gradle/JGit in Cygwin

JGit can't deal with symlinks in Cygwin, so running certain Gradle tasks fail. Workaround is to use a Windows shell and gradlew.bat or copying .gitconfig instead of symlinking it.

Symlinking files is not sustainable if local changes are required

Symlinking makes updating easy, but it's super annoying when you need to change or add to a file for local configuration. For example, I use a slightly different .gitconfig at work and not all versions of git support the include.path config option.

There needs to be a more general way of keeping the actual files in sync with the repo while supporting local changes.

Support local zshrc files

Add support for .zshrc.local so it's easy to override or add setting that only apply to a particular computer.

For instance, using cygwin at work I'd like to disable the git status check in the prompt because it is really slow with our repos.