To install this repo's content on a new (Linux, bash) host, run
(for the brave (foolhardy?)):
wget -q -O - https://raw.github.com/fwmechanic/homedir/master/bin/homedir-repo-install | bash
(the long way):
cd $HOMEwget -nv https://raw.github.com/fwmechanic/homedir/master/bin/homedir-repo-install && chmod -x homedir-repo-install./homedir-repo-installrm ./homedir-repo-install
Many years ago (when Linux was younger and my professional exposure to it nonexistent) I read Joey Hess' CVS homedir, or keeping your life in CVS Linux Journal article (which later morphed into Subverting your homedir, or keeping your life in svn) and thought "that's a great idea; I'll pursue creating that for my environment!"
While my work (and personal) environment remained 100% Windows over the
ensuing decade-plus, I used self-(Linux home server)-hosted cvs, then svn,
then hg (Mercurial), then (only in late 2014) git/github, for my long term
project and concurrently for my
personal Windows scripts and private files (eventually using free/private
BitBucket hg repos in addition to self-hosted repos).
Now, having a bit of time on my hands, and a growing dissatisfaction with Windows (Windows 10 in particular), I've decided to use my newly-honed Linux/bash skills to start a personal migration to Linux (my distro of choice: Lubuntu FTW!), sought to deploy a "state-of-the-art" solution to "putting [my] homedir in git", and recalled reading an HN posting in which a commenter offered a seeming near-ideal solution, and which another commenter helpfully cast to blog.
This repo contains my refinement of the above idea. It's definitely an
early work in progress: the pertinent alias has been renamed from the IMHO
too-generic config to the mnemonic hgit ("homedir git").
Perchance if you want to create your own "homedir repo" using
bin/homedir-repo-install as a basis, clone and edit
bin/homedir-repo-install to change variable dotfiles_repo_uri to point to
your repo and flip the false to true ...