"shallow symlinking" not working
tomhoover opened this issue · comments
I'm attempting to use shallow symlinking (as described at https://github.com/andsens/homeshick/wiki/Symlinking#shallow-symlinking), but have been unsuccessful. I've created a directory named local as a peer to home and created a symlink from home/.local to ../local; however, executing homeshick link fails to create a .local symlink in $HOME.
The following is my dotfiles-castle directory structure (I've cleaned up the tree output by deleting the .git directory):
$ tree -a dotfiles-castle/
dotfiles-castle/
├── home
│ ├── .bash_profile
│ ├── .bashrc
│ ├── .local -> ../local
│ └── .profile
└── local
└── Darwin.bash_profile
but have been unsuccessful
You'll have to be a little more specific :-)
However, I think I know what your problem is: Remember to add the files to git, homeshick only links files tracked by git - I totally forgot to mention that change in the docs, just gotta figure out where to do it.
Regardless, the following definitely works when using test/interactive:
homeshick generate test
homeshick cd test
mkdir local
touch local/Darwin.bash_profile
ln -s ../local home/.local
git add .
git commit -m 'add .local'
homeshick link test
That was it. I only installed homeshick today, and have been trying to decide whether to make it my dotfile manager of choice--since I hadn't yet decided, I hadn't bother committing anything to git. Thanks!