Git Home

A dotfiles manager using git.

Abstract

Git Home is a git extention to allow one to easaly manage there configuration files withouth needing to go through any symlinking or generating from third party apps.

Usage:

git home [add <files> | status | init | commit <options> | 
          log | --help | -- <git-sub-command>]

Commands:

• add: add a file to the git_home repo.
• status: print staus of files in the index.
• init: initialize a new home repo.
• commit: commit current index to repository.
• log: prints a log of the last commit.
• --help: prints this help dialog.
• -- : passes any commands following the double dashes to git. Any command preceding the double dash will be executed first.

For example, to commit your changes and then see a log of your commit history you could run:

git home commit -m "some message" -- status | less

Global Variables:

• GITHOMEDIR: $HOME/.config/git_home (default value)