On Sun, Dec 26, 2021, 2:18 PM Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 12:43:37AM +0100, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
> > I usually do "scp .* HOST:" whenever i get a HOST account, and
> > forget about it thereafter.
>
> I keep a private git repo on one of my machines, so when I get a HOST
> account, I run a comand like this:
>
> % git clone ssh://tytso@example.com/home/tytso/repos/dotfiles .
>

I have symlinks to all my files. I also have special hooks that I run per
os and per host to pull in different configs when needed. Though in
recent years I've not needed it much. I used to do a lot for work like
this, but these days work envs are close to my home env, so there is little
point.

I've been doing this since RCS days across 5 different SCMs... git makes
oopses so rare that the paranoia below seems overkill. Though for other
SCMs it would likely not be paranoid enough.

Warner

% cd dotfiles
> % make
>
> This installs a bunch of symlinks from
> dotfiles/{.bashrc,.profile,.muttrc}, etc. to $HOME/.
>
> That way, I can run "git pull" to update my dotfiles on one particular
> machine, and if I make local changes, I'll do a "git push" to send
> them back to my dotfiles repo.
>
> The Makefile I have in my top-level repo some folks might find
> interesting:
>
> .PHONY: all bin dotfiles
>
> all: dotfiles
>
> DIRS= .gnupg .mutt .config/gce-xfstests .config/gcloud/configurations bin
> em
> #DBG= echo
>
> dotfiles:
>         for file in $(shell find $(CURDIR) -maxdepth 1 -type f -name ".*" \
>             -not -name ".*~" -not -name ".gitignore" -print); do \
>                 f=$$(basename $$file); \
>                 if test -f $(HOME)/$$f -a ! -h $(HOME)/$$f ; then \
>                         mkdir -p backup ; \
>                         mv $(HOME)/$$f backup ; \
>                 fi ; \
>                 $(DBG) ln -sfn $$file $(HOME)/$$f; \
>         done
>         for dir in $(DIRS) ; do \
>             $(DBG) mkdir -p $(HOME)/$$dir ; \
>             for file in $$(find $$(pwd)/$$dir -maxdepth 1 -type f \
>                 -not -name "*~" -print); do \
>                 f=$$(basename $$file); \
>                 if test -f $(HOME)/$$dir/$$f -a ! -h $(HOME)/$$dir/$$f ;
> then \
>                         mkdir -p backup/$$dir ; \
>                         mv $(HOME)/$$dir/$$f backup/$$dir ; \
>                 fi ; \
>                 $(DBG) ln -sfn $$file $(HOME)/$$dir/$$f; \
>             done; \
>         done
>         if test -d backup ; then find backup -type f -print ; fi
>
> Cheers,
>
>                                                 - Ted
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