vcsh – Version Control System for $HOME

What's the advantage over stow+git?

Also check out "myrepos" - it works quite well with vcsh.

https://myrepos.branchable.com/

What I do is just have a ~/git/dotfiles repo, and then 'ln -s ~/git/dotfiles/vimrc ~/.vimrc' (and there is a script to dot his in the repo). Same with .bashrc, etc. You an use the same repo or different repos.

How is this better?

daveguy 10y ago ↗

This eliminates the ln -s ~git/dotfiles/vimrc ~/.vimrc step. Or more specifically, allows you to have any number of subsets of files contained in a single directory (or subdir) as members of different repositories.

chubot 10y ago ↗

Yeah, but I'd rather just have a 5 line shell script in my repo listing all the files it manages, rather than entirely new tool. I think it's overkill for dotfiles. A shell script works.

ohthehugemanate 10y ago ↗

Exactly what I do. It has the added benefit of only requiring the systems I already require (bash and git), so no extra software install or learning.

vok5 10y ago ↗

You could also use GNU Stow, which is a symlink farm manager. Here's an example on how to use it with dotfiles: https://github.com/dmarcoux/dotfiles

unfunco 10y ago ↗

I maintain a single dotfiles repository also, and have found RCM by Thoughtbot[0] to be an excellent tool for managing said dotfiles.

[0]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm

jokogr 10y ago ↗

Have a look at homeshick [1] as well, it seems to have similar functionality.

[1]: https://github.com/andsens/homeshick

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