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Dots - Modularize your dotfiles

58 points by cbau 14y ago

dotb52 14y ago
I created a little python script to install my dot files, see https://github.com/b52/dotfiles https://github.com/b52/dotfiles
- tiziano88 14y ago
  I have a similar script, but in bash, anyway I'll probably copy a thing or two from yours! thanks for sharing!
- deleted 14y ago
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datr 14y ago
Fresh is quite similar too. [1] http://freshshell.com/ http://freshshell.com/
- foobacca 14y ago
  Fresh is great. It lets you pull fragments of dot files from different repositories and combine then into contiguous files. So you could pull some bits from a team repository, have your own customizations on github (so you can share with others), and then have some private bits in a small private repo. Fresh well grab them all and combine then for you. Fresh can also populate your $HOME/bin from various repos. There is a directory[1] of reusable bits, though there are trust/security issues you might want to consider ... [1]https://github.com/freshshell/fresh/wiki/Directory https://github.com/freshshell/fresh/wiki/Directory
philips 14y ago
Ha! I will add the tool I wrote that behaves very similarly but has no external deps: https://github.com/philips/ghar https://github.com/philips/ghar
- cbau 14y ago
  Nice! I think you have me beat, unless one considers using Python + Fabric as a pro (which may not be unreasonable on a home machine). How do you resolve conflicts? I think that an interesting problem with lots of interesting solutions.
  - philips 14y ago
    Ghar punts on resolving conflicts. If the desrination directory or file exists it tells the user and moves on.
- patcon 14y ago
  Not mine, but homesick is a nice little gem that seems to also do what ghar does. I have no opinion on whether one or the other is better :) https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick
hp50g 14y ago
I think worse is better here. This just sounds like another layer of abstraction and complexity i want to avoid dealing with as it will consume head space and detract from actually solving the problem i am there to solve. I tend to make do with defaults as well i.e basic vi and ksh as i move between BSD and Linux regularly (and rarely Solaris 2.5 still!). No surprises and very few dotfiles.
- bgar 14y ago
  I think worse is better here. This just sounds like another layer of abstraction and complexity i want to avoid dealing with as it will consume head space and detract from actually solving the problem i am there to solve. I have a similar opinion, although I don't usually stick to defaults. Apparently this is targeted to teams of developers, so there might be more of a need to "modularize" things.
  - hp50g 14y ago
    Having dealt with teams of developers and existing within them, I doubt this would impact them in any positive way. It would in some animal-farm-esque way empower an individual rather than everyone. People have so many differing opinions on such things, standardisation is hard.
    - twe4ked 14y ago
      The idea with modularizing things is it makes it easy to share the parts that people do want the same. Where I work we have slowly but surely come to an agreement on most of our git aliases. That's why we built [fresh] a similar tool to allow us to share the parts we want to. [fresh] allows us to easily override anything we don't like and keep the parts we do like up to date. My [freshrc] file is an example of mixing other peoples aliases and bin files with a collection of my own config. [fresh]: https://github.com/freshshell/fresh https://github.com/freshshell/fresh [freshrc]: https://github.com/twe4ked/dotfiles/blob/master/freshrc https://github.com/twe4ked/dotfiles/blob/master/freshrc
- pekk 14y ago
johnpmayer 14y ago
I just gave up the domain name bashrx.com which I held on to for about 2 years. It was going to be a site where you could save a bunch of check-boxed modules of aliases, exports, and utility functions. So maybe I liked Josh's git aliases and Eve's screen management functions; I could save these preferences and generate a big concatenated file that I could download to my home directory using https. Anyone think that's still a cool idea? edit: it looks like there a are a bunch of CLI versions of this which I'm going to try out! But my big beef has always been going to a new computer and not wanting to call `curl thisorthat.sh` 50 times, and remember everything.
pfarrell 14y ago
I cloned Zach Holman's (holman) dot files implementation[1]. Mine [2] is basically Ian's torn apart and put back together (so i could understand it). It consists of symlinked rc files, and env and private_env files which get run at login / profile boots. The private env stuff (passwords, api keys, etc) are cloned from my home server or from encrypted Dropbox folder (still figuring out how I want to handle that) 1: https://github.com/holman/dotfiles https://github.com/holman/dotfiles 2: https://github.com/pfarrell/dotfiles https://github.com/pfarrell/dotfiles
- experiment0 14y ago
  I've done the same thing, I've customised holmans dotfiles and just replaced the content with my preferences. I really like the rake mechanism for symlinking. Simple and convenient.
chucklarge 14y ago
Heres mine with a pretty basic bash script that creates symlinks. https://github.com/chucklarge/dotfiles https://github.com/chucklarge/dotfiles
- sciurus 14y ago
  Thanks for sharing! Mine is below; not particularly elegant, but it adds stale link cleanup and a dry-run mode. https://gist.github.com/sciurus/5184930 https://gist.github.com/sciurus/5184930
jmount 14y ago
I've had good luck using Modules http://modules.sourceforge.net http://modules.sourceforge.net
omegote 14y ago
This is hilarious. Dotfiles have been around for decades, and now that all those hipster web devs are getting to use the console, now it's when all kinds of projects related to dotfiles are starting to appear. Come on guys.
- twe4ked 14y ago
  People are finding ways to solve problems that have existed for decades. I don't see how this is something coming from _hipster web devs_. > Come on guys. Stop solving your problems? If you don't see any value in it move on.
  - hp50g 14y ago
    Actually the problem is already solved. Some of us spend more time doing productive work than pissing around making our editors and shells and whatnot all pretty. I rarely touch dotfiles yet I spend 10 hours a day in front of a Unix workstation.
    - twe4ked 14y ago
      > Some of us spend more time doing productive work than pissing around making our editors and shells and whatnot all pretty. Some of us enjoy this and therefore tools that make it easier, better or more fun are always welcome.
- pfarrell 14y ago
  There are no new problems, just new engineers.
mbailey 14y ago
is this just a wrapper around "ln -s dir/.* ~/" ?
kaneo 14y ago
I built something similar. Basic bash script to modularize my dotfiles and sync them between my machines with Dropbox. Link: https://github.com/kanemathers/dotdrop/ https://github.com/kanemathers/dotdrop/
kibibu 14y ago
"Ceasar"? twitch twitch

58 points by cbau 14y ago

I created a little python script to install my dot files, see https://github.com/b52/dotfiles https://github.com/b52/dotfiles

tiziano88 14y ago
I have a similar script, but in bash, anyway I'll probably copy a thing or two from yours! thanks for sharing!
deleted 14y ago
[deleted]

datr 14y ago

Fresh is quite similar too. [1] http://freshshell.com/ http://freshshell.com/

foobacca 14y ago
Fresh is great. It lets you pull fragments of dot files from different repositories and combine then into contiguous files. So you could pull some bits from a team repository, have your own customizations on github (so you can share with others), and then have some private bits in a small private repo. Fresh well grab them all and combine then for you. Fresh can also populate your $HOME/bin from various repos. There is a directory[1] of reusable bits, though there are trust/security issues you might want to consider ... [1]https://github.com/freshshell/fresh/wiki/Directory https://github.com/freshshell/fresh/wiki/Directory

philips 14y ago

Ha! I will add the tool I wrote that behaves very similarly but has no external deps: https://github.com/philips/ghar https://github.com/philips/ghar

cbau 14y ago
Nice! I think you have me beat, unless one considers using Python + Fabric as a pro (which may not be unreasonable on a home machine). How do you resolve conflicts? I think that an interesting problem with lots of interesting solutions.
- philips 14y ago
  Ghar punts on resolving conflicts. If the desrination directory or file exists it tells the user and moves on.
patcon 14y ago
Not mine, but homesick is a nice little gem that seems to also do what ghar does. I have no opinion on whether one or the other is better :) https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick

hp50g 14y ago

I think worse is better here. This just sounds like another layer of abstraction and complexity i want to avoid dealing with as it will consume head space and detract from actually solving the problem i am there to solve. I tend to make do with defaults as well i.e basic vi and ksh as i move between BSD and Linux regularly (and rarely Solaris 2.5 still!). No surprises and very few dotfiles.

bgar 14y ago
I think worse is better here. This just sounds like another layer of abstraction and complexity i want to avoid dealing with as it will consume head space and detract from actually solving the problem i am there to solve. I have a similar opinion, although I don't usually stick to defaults. Apparently this is targeted to teams of developers, so there might be more of a need to "modularize" things.
- hp50g 14y ago
  Having dealt with teams of developers and existing within them, I doubt this would impact them in any positive way. It would in some animal-farm-esque way empower an individual rather than everyone. People have so many differing opinions on such things, standardisation is hard.
  - twe4ked 14y ago
    The idea with modularizing things is it makes it easy to share the parts that people do want the same. Where I work we have slowly but surely come to an agreement on most of our git aliases. That's why we built [fresh] a similar tool to allow us to share the parts we want to. [fresh] allows us to easily override anything we don't like and keep the parts we do like up to date. My [freshrc] file is an example of mixing other peoples aliases and bin files with a collection of my own config. [fresh]: https://github.com/freshshell/fresh https://github.com/freshshell/fresh [freshrc]: https://github.com/twe4ked/dotfiles/blob/master/freshrc https://github.com/twe4ked/dotfiles/blob/master/freshrc
pekk 14y ago

johnpmayer 14y ago

I just gave up the domain name bashrx.com which I held on to for about 2 years. It was going to be a site where you could save a bunch of check-boxed modules of aliases, exports, and utility functions. So maybe I liked Josh's git aliases and Eve's screen management functions; I could save these preferences and generate a big concatenated file that I could download to my home directory using https. Anyone think that's still a cool idea? edit: it looks like there a are a bunch of CLI versions of this which I'm going to try out! But my big beef has always been going to a new computer and not wanting to call `curl thisorthat.sh` 50 times, and remember everything.

pfarrell 14y ago

I cloned Zach Holman's (holman) dot files implementation[1]. Mine [2] is basically Ian's torn apart and put back together (so i could understand it). It consists of symlinked rc files, and env and private_env files which get run at login / profile boots. The private env stuff (passwords, api keys, etc) are cloned from my home server or from encrypted Dropbox folder (still figuring out how I want to handle that) 1: https://github.com/holman/dotfiles https://github.com/holman/dotfiles 2: https://github.com/pfarrell/dotfiles https://github.com/pfarrell/dotfiles

experiment0 14y ago
I've done the same thing, I've customised holmans dotfiles and just replaced the content with my preferences. I really like the rake mechanism for symlinking. Simple and convenient.

chucklarge 14y ago

Heres mine with a pretty basic bash script that creates symlinks. https://github.com/chucklarge/dotfiles https://github.com/chucklarge/dotfiles

sciurus 14y ago
Thanks for sharing! Mine is below; not particularly elegant, but it adds stale link cleanup and a dry-run mode. https://gist.github.com/sciurus/5184930 https://gist.github.com/sciurus/5184930

jmount 14y ago

I've had good luck using Modules http://modules.sourceforge.net http://modules.sourceforge.net

omegote 14y ago

This is hilarious. Dotfiles have been around for decades, and now that all those hipster web devs are getting to use the console, now it's when all kinds of projects related to dotfiles are starting to appear. Come on guys.

twe4ked 14y ago
People are finding ways to solve problems that have existed for decades. I don't see how this is something coming from _hipster web devs_. > Come on guys. Stop solving your problems? If you don't see any value in it move on.
- hp50g 14y ago
  Actually the problem is already solved. Some of us spend more time doing productive work than pissing around making our editors and shells and whatnot all pretty. I rarely touch dotfiles yet I spend 10 hours a day in front of a Unix workstation.
  - twe4ked 14y ago
    > Some of us spend more time doing productive work than pissing around making our editors and shells and whatnot all pretty. Some of us enjoy this and therefore tools that make it easier, better or more fun are always welcome.
pfarrell 14y ago
There are no new problems, just new engineers.

mbailey 14y ago

is this just a wrapper around "ln -s dir/.* ~/" ?

kaneo 14y ago

I built something similar. Basic bash script to modularize my dotfiles and sync them between my machines with Dropbox. Link: https://github.com/kanemathers/dotdrop/ https://github.com/kanemathers/dotdrop/

kibibu 14y ago

"Ceasar"? twitch twitch