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Add a tip to the docstring about how to handle ~/.config

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Sean Hammond 2010-02-08 09:36:35 -05:00
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@ -43,23 +43,32 @@ linked to. On other hosts _muttrc will be linked to.
`dotfilemanager report` will just report on what link or tidy would do
without actually making any changes to the filesystem.
TODO: support recursing into subdirectories, so I can have something
like this in TO_DIR:
Tip: handle directories like ~/.config separately
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_config
_config/openbox
_config/openbox__kisimul
_config/openbox__debxo
_config/terminator
_config/terminator__dulip
On my system a lot of config files are stored in ~/.config. I want to
manage some of the files in ~/.config but not all of them. I have
host-specific version of some files in ~/.config but not others. I
wouldn't want to move ~/.config to ~/.dotfiles/_config and have
dotfilemanager.py make a symlink ~/.config -> ~/.dotfiles/_config
because that would be putting _all_ the files in ~/config into
~/.dotfiles, and dotfilemanager.py would make the same symlink for every
host, if I wanted a host-specific version of ~/.config I'd have to put
_another_ complete copy of the directory into ~/.dotfiles with a
__hostname at the end.
i.e. host-specific files and directories inside a subdirectory of
TO_DIR. Want to allow for untracked files in the FROM_DIR/.config on the
host, so don't symlink subdirectories of TO_DIR themselves but recurse
into them and symlink any files inside, then recurse into any
subdirectories and repeat.
What you can to do is have a ~/config directory separate from
~/.dotfiles, move the files from ~/.config that you want to manage into
~/config, make host-specific versions if you want, then run both
commands:
TODO: support hostname as a command-line argument, overriding the system
dotfilemanager.py link ~ ~/.dotfiles
dotfilemanager.py link ~/.config ~/config
TODO
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Support hostname as a command-line argument, overriding the system
hostname. This might be useful for accounts on networked systems where
you login to the same user account from different computers, the system
hostname will be different each time you switch computers but you want