whatacold / extensible-dotfiles

Manage dotfiles in an extensible way!

This extensible-dotfiles manages dotfiles in an extensible way:

• Keep the universal part of dotfiles in the home/ directory, and keep the directory hierarchy same as $HOME

  Since different dotfiles have different comment chars, the files under home/ should indicate that at the first line, for example if the comment char is #.

  # THE COMMENT CHAR
  

  or ;:

  ; THE COMMENT CHAR
  

• Type make to install them

  It will keep the original content if target files already exist. The home/ file content goes inside a block of EXTENSIBLE-DOTFILES ..., and the final dotfiles will look like:

  # EXTENSIBLE-DOTFILES BEGINS, DO NOT EDIT DIRECTLY {
  export PATH="$HOME/local/bin/:$PATH"
  
  # colorscheme
  
  # alias
  
  
  # EXTENSIBLE-DOTFILES ENDS, DO NOT EDIT DIRECTLY }
  
  export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
  

• Want to have local-specific config? Just edit the final dotfiles outside the EXTENSIBLE-DOTFILES block.

Please note that, you may also want to version-control the final dotfiles in another git repo, if you have many local-specific config.