scottrobbins/hoard

A simple tool to allow backing up files to a git repository and keeping them in sync across computers.

hoard's Issues

Add Library Support

I want this to be able to be used as a part of a Swift script just to build bigger personal automation tools for myself

Think about automation to always keep your files up to date

I frequently forget to run hoard collect and hoard distribute. Then by the time I finally do I always have a conflict. They're really easy to resolve but there has to be a smoother process. It'd be great if there was some way to keep this up to date more frequently and avoid these conflicts.

Add linux support

This could also help with people (and myself) who develop on linux.

Update libraries

Libraries are not up to date. Need to resolve that.

Add to Homebrew

Self explanatory

Check for possible secret keys in files

You don't want to upload unencrypted secrets. It would be nice if we used some tool (I didn't write) to check for secrets in any of these files and warn users before committing and pushing them.

It should also have an ability to opt in/out to this feature on a global level and a file level.

(Maybe) Add ability to encrypt file in repository

Idk what the best tool to do this would be or the best way to do it, but it'd be cool if you could store secrets in one of these repos by encrypting the file before collecting, and decrypting when redistributing.

But I would need to seriously consider if I am confident enough in the encryption used and my implementation to have this open source.

Do not add file extension on dotfiles

Right now i will take something like .zshrc and then call it something like my-zshrc.zshrc. a dotfile does not have an extension, it should just be my-zshrc.

Add ability to collect without pushing

You may want to review your changes before pushing them to avoid uploading sensitive data.

Move to SwiftBuildTools account

When this is at a point where I think it's a solid tool for more than just me, I would like to move it to my SwiftBuildTools account

Make static library

It'd make distributing this type of tool so much easier if it could be distributed and used w/o Swift installed

Search for config if none is specified

Add ability to recursively search backwards for a config with a specific name, like .hoard.yml if none is specified

Add comment to README about secrets

Add comment to README explaining that people should not have unencrypted secrets in the files they are collecting, and this tool does not check for them.

Add command to add/remove a file to config

this will make it easier to add new files to make sure you're storing them. Same with removing.

Add ability to distribute files from the git repo

This is the other half of this tool really. It should use that same configuration to grab files from the git repo and re-distribute them onto the user's machine.

This will do overwrites, so it would be good if we could make a copy of the file it's overwriting and save it there under a different name before writing over it. As an improvement, if we could hash the new file and put that in the name of the renmaed one it would be useful to try to avoid overwriting that twice because of running the distribute command twice and needlessly destroying the file that was overwritten.

Add full directions to README

Showign how to install, use, a gif, maybe a banner, etc