https://github.com/mossop/dotfiles

My personal configuration scripts.
https://github.com/mossop/dotfiles

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My personal configuration scripts.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mossop/dotfiles
• Owner: Mossop
• Created: 2020-04-27T23:11:36.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-09-12T10:44:08.000Z (about 2 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-09-12T22:07:21.380Z (about 2 months ago)
• Language: Shell
• Size: 75.2 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
There are my personal [dotfiles](https://dotfiles.github.io/) and my hacked

together install/update system. Honestly there is probably not much here of

interest to anyone else, most of these notes are for my own benefit so I

remember how this all works.

## Installing

Something similar to the following:

```

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Mossop/dotfiles/main/bootstrap | sh

```

This will download and install the repo to `$HOME/dotfiles` and install the

configuration files and update `$HOME/.profile` to call `$HOME/dotfiles/scripts/startup.sh`

on login.

Under the hood the [`bootstrap`](https://github.com/Mossop/dotfiles/blob/main/bootstrap)

script attempts to download the contents of this repository and extract it to

`$HOME/dotfiles`. It will prefer to use `git` if installed but will fall back to

using curl or wget to download an archive of the current state of the repository.

After extraction [`scripts/post-bootstrap.sh`](https://github.com/Mossop/dotfiles/blob/main/scripts/post-bootstrap.sh)

is executed which writes the dotfile configuration file to `$HOME/dotfiles/.config`

and then executes [`install`](https://github.com/Mossop/dotfiles/blob/main/install)

to actually install everything.

## Updating

```

dotfiles/update

```

The actual updating is performed by [`scripts/do-update.sh`](https://github.com/Mossop/dotfiles/blob/main/scripts/do-update.sh)

which is copied to a temporary location before being executed in case the update

process modifies that file.

The update process attempts to use `git` to update the repository. This includes

attempting to convert the current dotfiles directory into a git repository if

git is available. If git is not available then it downloads the current archive

of dotfiles and extracts it to a temporary directory. The current dotfiles

directory is wiped excluding the `.config` file and then the new files are copied

into place.

Afterwards [`scripts/post-update.sh`](https://github.com/Mossop/dotfiles/blob/main/scripts/post-update.sh)

is executed which removes the temporary update script and then executes

[`install`](https://github.com/Mossop/dotfiles/blob/main/install) to install

everything.