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Repository to keep personal home folder data
https://github.com/maoueh/personalhome

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# Details



This repository contains my home folder bash initialization scripts. The 

whole idea of this repository is to easily share as many things as possible 

between environment variable. Feel free to re-use it for your own needs and

don't hesitate to contribute to the project by discussing ideas like 

improving the scripts, the organization of this repository or any other

improvements in the [issues](https://github.com/maoueh/personalhome/issues) 

section.



## Organization



There is nice challenges when it comes the time to manage your `personalhome`

to feel comfortable working with. The biggest concern arise when sharing

your scripts and everything from machine to machine. Having two development

devices (one at work and one at home) is probably the most common but I'm

sure some of you have three or more.



Parts of scripts and configuration files are machine specific while other

are not at different layers; i.e. that they can be shared across multiple

machine depending on some characteristics like distro, os, bash terminal,

etc.



This repository started as machine specific repository to share among

two machines. I now started experimenting for a better branching model

more usable to split general configuration file and script from ones that

change machine to machine.



Each subsection is dedicated to a particular branch. Following, some

convention and pattern for merge, I hope to be able to compose base

machine easily.



### Branch `common`



The starting branch containing at least the license file and this

readme. It could contain at term more files but I don't see how.



### Branch `bash`



Base branch for stuff that works with `bash` but not tied to a 

particular distro (at least trying really hard).



### Branch `msys2`



Base branch for stuff that works with `bash` but and tied to a 

particular to an [msys2](http://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/) distro

(Windows based) (at least trying really hard).



It is tied to branch `bash`, maybe some day we will split this in

multiple other branches (like `msys2-bash`, `msys2-zsh`, etc.).



### Branch `machine` (or `machine-` for specific machine)



This the final branch that should be mirrored in your home directory.

In my case, I keep the git repository directly in `~` so I can see 

if I changed something and it must be committed.



You simply merge the most specific branch for your machine and sets

some environment variables to customize the environment.



This branch should probably never be push. But you might be careful

and keep it stored.



## Discussion & Ideas



The whole idea of this repository is to easily share as many things

as possible between environment variable.



When looking at the goal and not the way to go it, maybe this repository

is useless and it exists a better system for this. Here some random ideas.



### Chef based



Maybe keeping a private chef repository each machine being a node and

leverage cookbook and roles to leverage this to create something better

than this. I did not evaluated yet the difference between the current

git approach and this idea.



## Contribution



Pick the right branch to work it and add a feature or modification that

would work for it. Send a merge request.