#profile #config-file #directory #init #install #reinstall #dotbot

bin+lib dotsy

A basic dotfile manager created to replace my usage of dotbot

12 releases (6 breaking)

0.7.0 Sep 18, 2022
0.6.0 Sep 16, 2022
0.5.0 Sep 16, 2022
0.4.0 Jan 17, 2022
0.1.4 Jan 11, 2022

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38 downloads per month

MIT license

30KB
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Dotsy

A Huge WIP... Infact most of it doesn't work so don't bother downloading yet 😂 It'll get there eventually 🤦

The idea behind this was to be able to manage and reinstall a config or profile from where ever you were in the file tree. For example

ls ~/
> ~/Dotfiles
> ~/dev
pwd
> ~/dev/supercool-project/

dotsy config -i neovim
# ^ This would install your neovim config without moving you
# out of the directory or context you're currently in (i've felt this is useful 
# when I break things)

Getting started on a new machine would theoretically be as simple as running this after cloning your dotfiles

cargo install dotsy
dotsy init
# ^ After this you would have to fill in the config file with the location
# of your dotfiles but this step could be skipped if you have a .dotsyrc in your
# dotfiles repo
dotsy profile -i <name of profile to install>

Planning

Command structure?

  • dotsy profile install <profile-name/'s'>
  • dotsy profile uninstall <profile-name/'s'>
  • dotsy config install <config-name/'s>
  • dotsy config uninstall <config-name/'s>
  • dotsy config list
  • dotsy profile list

File structure

  • configs/
    • config/
      • <name>/
      • <name>.json
  • profiles/
    • <name>.json
  • .dotsyrc ( This will hold global options such as the package manager install and uninstall command etc...)

test-config.json

Everything will be optional

{
  "description": "Test config",
  "links": [{ "from": "./test", "to": "~/test" }],
  "directories": ["~/Test-Dir"],
  "packages": ["npm"],
  "shell": ["npm i test"],
  "revert-shell": ["npm uninstall test"]
}

profile.json example

Everything but configs will be optional

{
  "description": "Test profile",
  "configs": ["test-config"],
  "directories": ["~/Documents"],
  "packages": ["nvim"],
  "shell": ["npm i test"],
  "revert-shell": ["npm uninstall test"]
}

Dependencies

~11–21MB
~356K SLoC