Silas Sewell - Git http://www.silassewell.com/blog/tag/git Infrastructure Development Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.silassewell.com/ en hourly 1 Profile Management with Git and GitHub http://www.silassewell.com/blog/2009/03/08/profile-management-with-git-and-github/ Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT silas http://www.silassewell.com/blog/2009/03/08/profile-management-with-git-and-github/ The following describes a simple way to manage you profile configuration files using GitHub.

Features

  • Centralized configuration management
  • Files live in their native locations (no symbolic linking)
  • Home directory is not a Git repository
  • All the power of git with a simple alias

Setup Repository

  • Log into GitHub and create a repository named config
  • Add your public keys to GitHub (if you haven't done so already)

  • Open a terminal and switch to your home directory

    cd ~

  • Create a configuration directory

    mkdir .config.git

  • Add the following alias to your current session and your .bash_profile

    alias config='git --git-dir=$HOME/.config.git/ --work-tree=$HOME'
echo "alias config='git --git-dir=$HOME/.config.git/ --work-tree=$HOME'" >> .bash_profile

  • Add your .bash_profile to the configuration repository

    config add .bash_profile

  • Commit the changes

    config commit -m 'Initial commit'

  • Change the origin to GitHub

    config remote add origin git@github.com:GITHUB_USERNAME/config.git

  • Push the changes

    config push origin master

If you get an error when running config pull to the effect of You asked me to pull without... run the follow:

    echo -e '[branch "master"]\n  remote = origin\n  merge = refs/heads/master' >> ~/.config.git/config

Setup Configuration Management on a Different System

  1. Add your public keys to GitHub (if you haven't done so already)

  2. Switch to your home directory

    cd ~

  3. Backup your local configuration files, example:

    mv .bash_profile .bash_profile.bk

  4. Clone your configuration repository

    git clone git@github.com:GITHUB_USERNAME/config.git config.git

  5. Move the git metadata to ~/.config.git

    mv config.git/.git .config.git

  6. Enable dotglob

    shopt -s dotglob

  7. Move your configuration files to your home directory

    mv -i config.git/* .

  8. Delete the config.git directory

    rmdir config.git

  9. Logout and log back in

Basic Usage

  • config pull - get latest configuration changes
  • config add FILENAME - add a configuration file
  • config commit -a - save all configuration changes
  • config push - push configuration changes to GitHub
  • and any other config GIT_OPTION

You can see my configuration repository at http://github.com/silas/config.

Source: Manage your $HOME with git by Robert Escriva

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