tomsimonart / sdfm-legacy

Super DotFile Manager

SDFM

Description

The Super DotFile Manager is a minimalistic tool with a single purpose: Allow you to track and share configuration files on multiple machines.

How it works

SDFM will hard link files (only within your home directory) into a storage directory. This storage is designed to work with git so you can version your configuration files and share them between machines. When you change your configuration file the changes will be reflected in the storage too.

Installation

Run make for instructions.

For development you can link sdfm to a file in your PATH: ln ./sdfm.sh ~/.local/usr/bin/sdfm.

Example: using git to version and share your storage

You can track your storage with anything you want, but here is an example on how to do it with git:

1. Initialize git on machine 1:

   # Open the storage directory
   sdfm shell
   git init
   git remote add origin [e-mail]:<username>/<repo>

2. Track a configuration file on machine 1:

   # Let's say you want share your .bashrc file with machine 2
   sdfm add ~/.bashrc
   git add .bashrc
   git commit -m 'Add .bashrc to the storage'
   git push

3. On machine 2:

   sdfm shell
   git clone [e-mail]:<username>/<repo> .
   sdfm install

   Now if you already had a .bashrc file in your home directory then SDFM will create a backup automatically (using ln --backup=numbered). Your old .bashrc will now be named ~/.bashrc.~1~ (or ~/.bashrc.~2~ if you already had a backup).

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