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• dotbot

why

dotbot is a tool to manage dot files. I wrote this tool after gettting tired of futzing around with the python dotbot from https://github.com/anishathalye/dotbot. Full disclosure I love this tool and it’s the motivation for the development of my own dotbot.

I had two main issues that were annoying to me. First, git submodules were a part of the bootstrap process. Second, I always needed some yaml dependancy installed. These two steps combined and that written in a confusing shell script I managed to find getting setup annoying, and slightly difficult.

So i took a simplify approach, lets rewrite the tool in go. No dependencies, No submodules. No scripts. I modified the config slightly to fit modeling it to a go struct and simplified things. What I ended up with was the go rewrite of dotbot.

dotbot

sigmonsays version of a dotbot tool https://github.com/sigmonsays/dotbot

Supported features are similar, directories can be created using mkdirs:, symlinks can be created using symlinks: and scripts can be run using script:. The final clean: section is used to delete invalid symbolic links; invalid meaning they do not point to an actual something that exists.

Example configuration, lets call it example.yaml

mkdirs:
- ~/asdf
symlinks:
    ~/bin: bin
    ~/.bashrc: bashrc
    ~/.gitconfig: gitconfig
    ~/.tmux.conf: tmux.conf

script:
- id: fix-ssh-perms
    type: post
    command: |
    chmod 0400 ~/.ssh/config
clean:
- "~"
- "~/.config"

Example invocation

 dotbot -c example.yaml link

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