VCH Setup

Version Controled Home Setup Scripting.

These scripts help me manage multiple repositories which combine to form a version controled home.

Software

Giving credit to the software projects I am wrapping

• vcsh by Richard Hartmann (RichiH); github: RichiH/vcsh
• mr/myrepos by Joey Hess (joeyh); github: joeyh/myrepos
• git-crypt by Andrew Ayer (AGWA); github: AGWA/git-crypt

Assumed Software

• git
• brew (Mac OS)
• internet utils (Linux)

Quick Start

Run the thing

Basic Usage

Adding new dot repo

• add-dot.sh [dot_repo_name]
• mrAddDot.sh [dot_repo_name]

Older Information

grep forsaken EXAMPLE.vcsh | awk -F'~>' '{ print $NF }' | sed -e 's/tmux/vimrc/g'

vcsh init vim
vcsh vim add ~/.vimrc ~/.vim
vcsh write-gitignore vim
vcsh vim add -f .gitignore.d/vim
vcsh write-gitignore vim
vcsh vim add .gitignore.d/vim
vcsh vim commit -m 'Initial commit of my Vim configuration'
# optionally push your files to a remote
vcsh vim remote add origin <remote>
vcsh vim push -u origin master
# from now on you can push additional commits like this
vcsh vim push

Assumptions

• vcsh installed, up-to-date: older than 2014-02-21
• git-crypt installed
• VCSH repo named 'foo'

Actions

• Update your vcsh repo vcsh upgrade foo

• Create the gitattributes file for this repo

  mkdir ~/.gitattributes.d
  touch ~/.gitattributes.d/foo

• Add it to git your git repo vcsh foo add ~/.gitattributes.d/foo

• Follow the readme of git-crypt until the .gitattributes part

• Instead of .gitattributes, put the config in ~/.gitattributes.d/foo

  cat >~/.gitattrubutes.d/foo<<EOD
  secret filter=git-crypt diff=git-crypt
  passwds filter=git-crypt diff=git-crypt
  *magic* filter=git-crypt diff=git-crypt
  EOD

• Continue the readme of git-crypt

  git-crypt init
  git-crypt add-gpg-user DFE3287A