Dotbot rsync Plugin
To be used with dotbot, this plugin allows to sync files from dotfiles repo.
You can now track files that should not be world viewable or require special permissions.
Prerequisites
rsync
(version 3.1 or newer) needs to be available on the system and runnuble by the user executing dotbot
Usage
Add the plugin as a submodule to your dotfiles repo:
git submodule add https://github.com/j1r1k/dotbot-sync.git
Execute dotbot
with plugin parameter
./install -p dotbot-sync/sync.py
Configuration
All configuration parameters can be specified either globaly in default
task or locally for each individual record
Example containing all options enumerated with their default values:
- defaults:
sync:
rsync: 'rsync' # rsync executable to be used
options: ['--delete', '--safe-links'] # list of options for rsync
create: false # create missing directory hierarchy
fmode: 644 # file mode
dmode: 755 # directory mode
owner: '<current user name>' # owner (default value is looked up at runtime)
group: '<current user group>' # group (default value is looked up at runtime)
stdout: false # ignore stdout of rsync process
stderr: false # ignore stderr of rsync process
- sync:
~/.ssh/authorized_keys:
path: 'ssh/authorized_keys'
fmode: 400