[idea] make some command to update LARBS about voidrice

[LukeSmithxyz]

I'm going to be adding some documentation on updating this with git in the next big update. Possibly with an associated video. Closing this issue for cleanliness's sake.

Yeah, I was just wondering how to update LARBS. Because if I were to download one of the files to overwrite mine it would get rid of all my customizations.

[LukeSmithxyz]

Well you can easily run:

git fetch --all
git reset --hard origin/master

To update your repo. This, however will overwrite config changes you've made. I'm trying to figure out what the best git solution is for manually picking what to overwrite.

For now, I will manually copy paste an update in if I really want it or need it.

[yurisuki]

yeah, that kinda sucks. I have no idea how would anyone do it because some people (also me) have changed some things in their configs and will be overwritten by then.

Updating is a tricky thing because so many people have different preferences for how to handle it. Personally, I don't mind going through the changes on here and manually copying them over as needed. I also don't mind reinstalling the entire system because I'm not one to customize a whole lot. I can usually reinstall and be back where I was in 45 minutes.

I can't get back to where I was very quickly because it takes me a while to download things since my internet isn't very good. I am also semi-new to Linux (I used Mac for a few years, which I could use vim, ranger, and I found a tiling wm as well) so I would have to google a lot of the tutorials again.

Not much you can do about slow internet, but if you haven't already, I would suggest updating your mirror list. I also keep a small file that has every step of all the little changes I made just in case I want/need to start over with a clean system.

I could also upload the dotfiles to my own github, it would take a while at first but afterwards it is just small <1mb updates.

[gabriel-doriath-dohler]

https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/ could be useful. Dotfiles should be stored in /home/user/.dotfiles-user and symlinked to /home/user.
When updating, download voidrice to /home/user/.dotfiles-voidrice, track both folder with git separately. Then sync both repo (/home/user/.dotfiles-user and /home/user/.dotfiles-voidrice). It works the same way as synced forks.

[gabriel-doriath-dohler]

I guess git merge-tool could be used to resolve conflicts.