fahmidur / dotfiles

My dotfiles

Dotfiles

A small collection of some of my dotfiles and a script to aid the synchronization.

There is a setup script (setup.rb) which should setup everything I need on a new unconfigured machine. The setup script goes through the tree directory mapping each file to a target file on the current machine. The tree folder has two top level directories:

• Tree
  • __HOME__ -- All files relative to $HOME, the user's home directory
  • __ROOT__ -- All files relative to ROOT

For every file in this tree, a symlink is created at the target location to the source file in the dotfiles repo. If a file is already at the target location, the script will make a crude backup of the file.

./setup.rb

The setup script will create a hidden json file in $HOME to keep track of some meta data. It uses this file to keep track of which symlinks were created.

During synchronization broken symlinks from past syncs are removed.