dotman

dotman

Super simple dotfiles manager. It will create symlinks between your dotfiles repository and the system files.

Install

Via go get:

go get github.com/erizocosmico/dotman

Manual build:

cd /path/to/dotman
go build -o /usr/local/bin/dotman .

Or just grab one of the releases from the releases page.

Usage

Config

Create a config.yaml file with the mappings between files:

config/i3: ~/.config/i3
config.json: ~/.config/some/config.json

dotman admits only a very limited form of yaml: SRC_PATH: DST_PATH. The key is the source file or directory, and the value is the destination.

For example, config/i3: ~/.config/i3 will create a symlink between ./config/i3 and ~/.config/i3, no matter if it's a file or a directory.

Run

dotman

Just that.

There's a couple options you can specify:

• -force if the destination path already exists, delete it first and then symlink. This is specially dangerous if the destination is a folder! Use with caution!
• -config PATH path to the config file. config.yaml by default.

By default, if the destination exists, dotman will ask you if you want to replace it, so if you didn't use -force dotman will not mess anything unless you specifically confirm whether you want to overwrite some file or not.

License

MIT License, see LICENSE