https://github.com/kobus-v-schoor/dotgit

A comprehensive solution to managing your dotfiles
https://github.com/kobus-v-schoor/dotgit

dotfile-manager dotfiles git

Last synced: 4 days ago
JSON representation

A comprehensive solution to managing your dotfiles

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/kobus-v-schoor/dotgit
• Owner: kobus-v-schoor
• License: gpl-2.0
• Created: 2015-12-27T19:57:38.000Z (about 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-03-06T08:41:35.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-25T00:04:31.766Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: dotfile-manager, dotfiles, git
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 400 KB
• Stars: 167
• Watchers: 8
• Forks: 12
• Open Issues: 3
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

Awesome Lists containing this project

• jimsghstars - kobus-v-schoor/dotgit - A comprehensive solution to managing your dotfiles (Python)

README

        
# dotgit

![tests](https://github.com/kobus-v-schoor/dotgit/workflows/tests/badge.svg)

[![coverage](https://coveralls.io/repos/github/kobus-v-schoor/dotgit/badge.svg)](https://coveralls.io/github/kobus-v-schoor/dotgit)

![publish-pypi](https://github.com/kobus-v-schoor/dotgit/workflows/publish-pypi/badge.svg)

[![docs](https://readthedocs.org/projects/dotgit/badge/?version=latest)](https://dotgit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)

[![downloads](https://img.shields.io/pypi/dm/dotgit)](https://pypi.org/project/dotgit/)

## A comprehensive and versatile dotfiles manager

dotgit allows you to easily store, organize and manage all your dotfiles for

any number of machines. Written in python with no external dependencies besides

git, it works on both Linux and MacOS (should also work on other \*nix

environments).

## Project goals

* Share files between machines or keep separate versions, all in the same repo

  without any funny shenanigans

* Make use of an intuitive filelist which makes organization easy

* Make git version control convenient and easy to use

## Why use dotgit?

* You can very easily organize and categorize your dotfiles, making it easy to

  store different setups in the same repo (e.g. your workstation and your

  headless server dotfiles, stored and managed together)

* Ease-of-use is baked into everything without hindering more advanced users.

  For instance, dotgit can automatically commit and push commits for you should

  you want it to, but you can just as easily make the commits yourself

* dotgit has an automated test suite that tests its functionality with several

  versions of Python on Linux and MacOS to ensure cross-platform compatibility

* Support for both symlinking or copying dotfiles to your home directory.

  Copying allows you to quickly bootstrap a machine without leaving your repo

  or dotgit on it

* No external dependencies apart from git allowing you to install and use

  dotgit easily in any environment that supports Python

* Encryption using GnuPG supported to allow you to store sensitive dotfiles

## Getting started

To get started with dotgit have a look at dotgit's documentation at

[https://dotgit.readthedocs.io/](https://dotgit.readthedocs.io/).

## Future goals

The following features are on the wishlist for future releases (more

suggestions welcome):

* [x] Encryption using GnuPG

* [ ] Config file for default behaviour (e.g. verbosity level, hard mode)

* [ ] Templating

## Migration from v1.x

If you used the previous bash version of dotgit (pre-v2) you need to follow the

migration guide

[here](https://dotgit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/migration_v1.html) to make your

dotfiles repo compatible with the new version.

## Contributing

Contributions to dotgit are welcome, just open a PR here on the repo. Please

note that your contributions should be linted with Flake8 (you can check for

linting errors locally by running `make lint` in the repo) and should also be

covered using unit tests using the pytest framework.