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Workstation backup via git
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create an empy bare git repo
git init --bare $HOME/.cfg
whith this Step you hace a repo inside your home directory ```$HOME/.cfg ```. Inside there are laying your git management files.
create an alias
alias config="git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME"
execute this ONCE
config config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no
if you execute it more than once, all your Home Files would be marked always as untracked. If you execute config status.
Now you can use the command config
as you would do with git.
config status / commit / pull / push ... merge, rebase, reset...
add files, commit and push:
config add .vim config commit -m "My new VIM config" config push
set an upstream URL to Github etc. and push it
git clone --bare https://...../dotfiles.git $HOME/.cfg
ksh aliases (should also work for bash)
# config command alias config='git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME' # I'm lazy, so just commit with some machine info function dotfiles_autoupdate { config add -u && \ config commit -m "Update $(date +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M") $(uname -s)/$(uname -m)" && \ config push }
# please give me my dotfiles... function dotfiles_init { git --no-replace-objects clone --bare \ git@gitserver:dotfiles.git $HOME/.cfg config config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no config checkout -f }
Attention:
Do not commit passwords!!! This sounds logical but is sometimes not so simple. Many programs / config folder can possibly contain cached passwords (vim) and you should also consider to create sample files like .configfile.sample
containing only "******************" instead the real password. But that's only one example.
learn to commit with: --rebase, stash
not up-to-date branch
sometimes you change something on a not up-to-date branch. Because of that he advises in general
config pull --rebase # instad with config pull
uncommitted changes in git repo:
config stash config pull --rebase config stash apply
autocommit.sh
#!/bin/sh git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME commit -a -m "AutoUpdate-$(hostname)-$(date +%d-%m-%Y"-"%H:%M:%S)" git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME push sh master git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME push origin master
Now you could for example create a Cronjob and your Dotfiles get automaticially committed and pushed to your gitrepo.