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evanpurkhiser
A portable tool for managing a single set of dotfiles in an organized fashion
I've had some ideas bouncing around in my head about a updated version of this tool that's hopefully just as powerful, but even easier to configure and more manageable. Here's...
A '--force' flag for install, or something similar, that forces dots to rerun all installation scripts (*.install files). At the moment, dots only will execute an installation script if the...
If a directory has any files updated in it then we should execute `.install` files for that directory.
Currently, when an .install-script that isn't executable is to be executed, the application fails with a cryptic: ``` [Errno 13]: Permission denied ``` (which is what `subprocess.Popen` throws [here](https://github.com/EvanPurkhiser/dots/blob/d25236998aa609d1aa0586ffe2d5208747cc318b/bin/dots#L506), when...
Instead of executing .install immediately upon installation of a configuration file, they should be executed after all files have been installed.
I don't like keeping my repository in ~/.local/etc/, especially since I have my own conventions for storing repositories that I frequently update. SOURCE_DIR should be able to be set from...
Dots should have a verbose mode that tells you all the files it is about to copy and what processing (substitutions, installation scripts, etc) are being performed. Following that, it'd...
If we assume that the users source configuration directory is under source control (`$HOME/.local/etc`) then we can keep track of what global version of files have been installed. This would...
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A portable tool for managing a single set of dotfiles in an organized fashion