zoybean/config-tools

Easily distribute rc and other configuration files

Distributed Configuration Files

Installation

Put a config directory in your home directory, and make a git repository in config/src. Clone this repo into config/tools, and use the tools to export and link your existing configuration files to the new repo. You can then clone config/src and config/tools on any machine you like, and use the link tool to sync your local configuration on that machine with the repo copy, or import to simply copy the files without syncing.

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Just replace your config files with symlinks to the files in your repo; it's that easy! No more carting around USBs full of old and new rc files! Once you've made a clever change to one of your rc files, just commit and push! Then, pull it to any of your other computers that could benefit from that change!

Scripts to easily update and link files!!

Use export to update the repository with unlinked local files, overwriting existing files
Use link to link you local files with the repository, overwriting local originals
Use import to update the local files with files from the repo, overwriting links

Misc

Git doesn't track repositories inside other repositories unless you tell it to specifically.
Use the git submodule set of commands. I'm not too familiar with it myself, but git submodule add <url> clones the repository, and tracks it.