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Re: Dots - Modularize your dotfiles

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Post by hp50g »

I think worse is better here. This just sounds like another layer of abstraction and complexity i want to avoid dealing with as it will consume head space and detract from actually solving the problem i am there to solve.

I tend to make do with defaults as well i.e basic vi and ksh as i move between BSD and Linux regularly (and rarely Solaris 2.5 still!). No surprises and very few dotfiles.

Re: Dots - Modularize your dotfiles

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Post by cbau »

philips wrote: post #4

Ha! I will add the tool I wrote that behaves very similarly but has no external deps: https://github.com/philips/ghar

Nice! I think you have me beat, unless one considers using Python + Fabric as a pro (which may not be unreasonable on a home machine).

How do you resolve conflicts? I think that an interesting problem with lots of interesting solutions.

Re: Dots - Modularize your dotfiles

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Post by bgar »

hp50g wrote: post #5

I think worse is better here. This just sounds like another layer of abstraction and complexity i want to avoid dealing with as it will consume head space and detract from actually solving the problem i am there to solve. I tend to make do with defaults as well i.e basic vi and ksh as i move between BSD and Linux regularly (and rarely Solaris 2.5 still!). No surprises and very few dotfiles.

I think worse is better here. This just sounds like another layer of abstraction and complexity i want to avoid dealing with as it will consume head space and detract from actually solving the problem i am there to solve.

I have a similar opinion, although I don't usually stick to defaults.

Apparently this is targeted to teams of developers, so there might be more of a need to "modularize" things.

Re: Dots - Modularize your dotfiles

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Post by johnpmayer »

I just gave up the domain name bashrx.com which I held on to for about 2 years. It was going to be a site where you could save a bunch of check-boxed modules of aliases, exports, and utility functions. So maybe I liked Josh's git aliases and Eve's screen management functions; I could save these preferences and generate a big concatenated file that I could download to my home directory using https.

Anyone think that's still a cool idea?

edit: it looks like there a are a bunch of CLI versions of this which I'm going to try out! But my big beef has always been going to a new computer and not wanting to call `curl thisorthat.sh` 50 times, and remember everything.

Re: Dots - Modularize your dotfiles

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Post by philips »

cbau wrote: post #6
philips wrote: post #4

Ha! I will add the tool I wrote that behaves very similarly but has no external deps: https://github.com/philips/ghar

Nice! I think you have me beat, unless one considers using Python + Fabric as a pro (which may not be unreasonable on a home machine). How do you resolve conflicts? I think that an interesting problem with lots of interesting solutions.

Ghar punts on resolving conflicts. If the desrination directory or file exists it tells the user and moves on.
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