fwmechanic/homedir

Installation

To install this repo's content on a new (Linux, bash) host, run

(for the brave (foolhardy?)):

• wget -q -O - https://raw.github.com/fwmechanic/homedir/master/bin/homedir-repo-install | bash

(the long way):

• cd $HOME
• wget -nv https://raw.github.com/fwmechanic/homedir/master/bin/homedir-repo-install && chmod -x homedir-repo-install
• ./homedir-repo-install
• rm ./homedir-repo-install

Background / Inspiration

Many years ago (when Linux was younger and my professional exposure to it nonexistent) I read Joey Hess' CVS homedir, or keeping your life in CVS Linux Journal article (which later morphed into Subverting your homedir, or keeping your life in svn) and thought "that's a great idea; I'll pursue creating that for my environment!"

While my work (and personal) environment remained 100% Windows over the ensuing decade-plus, I used self-(Linux home server)-hosted cvs, then svn, then hg (Mercurial), then (only in late 2014) git/github, for my long term project and concurrently for my personal Windows scripts and private files (eventually using free/private BitBucket hg repos in addition to self-hosted repos).

Now, having a bit of time on my hands, and a growing dissatisfaction with Windows (Windows 10 in particular), I've decided to use my newly-honed Linux/bash skills to start a personal migration to Linux (my distro of choice: Lubuntu FTW!), sought to deploy a "state-of-the-art" solution to "putting [my] homedir in git", and recalled reading an HN posting in which a commenter offered a seeming near-ideal solution, and which another commenter helpfully cast to blog.

This repo contains my refinement of the above idea. It's definitely an early work in progress: the pertinent alias has been renamed from the IMHO too-generic config to the mnemonic hgit ("homedir git").

Cloning / Bootstrapping

Perchance if you want to create your own "homedir repo" using bin/homedir-repo-install as a basis, clone and edit bin/homedir-repo-install to change variable dotfiles_repo_uri to point to your repo and flip the false to true ...