sadedot

Backup all your dotfiles (and easily deploy them on another machine).

Table of contents

• Installation
• Usage
• Dependencies
• Updating
• Contributing
• License

Installation

This repo is supposed to be used as a submodule. So, if you already have a git repo with your dotfiles:

git submodule add git@github.com:santilococo/sadedot.git
git submodule update --init

And if you don't, you can fork my dotfiles repo on github.

Usage

You have to move all your dotfiles to the dotfiles folder and then the script will do the symbolic links. Doing it this way, you can now upload them to your repository (to have a backup of them).

You should note that all these dotfiles (files or folders) will be symlinked in $HOME. So, if you want to symlink, for example, something in /etc, you have to put it in the dotfiles/other folder. Here you have to be careful as they will be installed in /. You can see an example here.

So, to run the script:

sh scripts/bootstrap.sh

By default the script will run with whiptail (libnewt).

However, the script can use both dialog and whiptail as a way to display dialog boxes, so if you want to use dialog you have to pass -d as a parameter.

For example, you can run

sh scripts/bootstrap.sh -d

to use dialog.

Finally, you can run the script with -l if you want to print the log in the sadedot.log file.

Note that you can modify the scripts/install.sh if you want to install some programs on your machine when this script is run. By default, scripts/bootstrap.sh will not run this script, so you will need to use the -p flag if you want it to run scripts/install.sh (it will run at the end of the scripts/bootstrap.sh script).

Dependencies

You must install libnewt or dialog.

Updating

To keep the submodule up to date, you need to run

git submodule foreach git pull

Contributing

PRs are welcome.

License

MIT