Using dotgit will allow you to effortlessly store all your dotfiles in a single git repository. dotgit doesn't only do storage - it also manages your dotfiles between multiple computers and devices.

• Make it possible to store different versions of the same file in a single repository, but also to
• Make it possible to share the same file between more than one host/category
• Make use of an intuitive filelist
• Use (easy) one-liners to set up repository on new host
• Categorise files
• Make usage with git convenient and easy, but don't impair git's power
• Keep ALL the dotfiles in one, single repository
• Support for directories
• Support for encryption

• If you're uncomfortable with git, let dotgit work with git for you. If you prefer to work with git yourself you can easily do that - a dotgit repository is just a normal git repository, no frills
• Equally good support for both symlinks and copies
• No dependencies, just a bash script
• Intuitive filelist - easily create a complex repository storing all your different configurations
• Easily work with only a group of files in your repository (categories)
• Straightforward file-hierarchy
• Support for directories
• Secure implementation of GnuPG AES encryption

While dotgit is one of many dotfile managers, there are some key differences when compared with others:

• yadm - dotgit's way of separating files for different hosts is a lot easier and doesn't involve renaming the files.
• vcsh - While vcsh is very powerful, dotgit is a lot easier to set up, use and maintain over multiple machines (the only time you run a dotgit command is when you changed the filelist). vcsh also uses multiple repositories, something I personally wanted to avoid when I tried versioning my dotfiles.
• homeshick - dotgit also allows multiple configurations (categories), but still keeps them in a single repository.

All the above tools are great, and I encourage you to check them out. dotgit combines the features that I find lacking in the above tools, but this is only my 2 cents :)

Consider the following example filelist:

.vimrc:desktop,laptop
.vimrc:pi
.bashrc
.foo:server

Firstly, there will be two .vimrc files. The first one will be shared between the hosts desktop and laptop. They will both be kept exactly the same - whenever you change it on the one host, you will get the changes on the other (you will obviously first need to do a git pull inside the repository to get the new changes from the online repository). There will also be a separate .vimrc inside the dotgit repository that will only be used with the pi host.

Since no host was specified with .bashrc it will reside inside the common folder. This means that it will be shared among all hosts using this dotgit repository (unless a category is specifically used along with the dotgit commands).

Lastly the .foo will only be used when you explicitly use the category server. This makes it easy to keep separate configurations inside the same repository.

If you'd like to see a dotgit repository in action you can look at my dotfiles where I keep the dotfiles of 3 PC's that I regularly use.

Arch Linux- AUR Package

A system-wide install is not necessary - you can simply run dotgit out of a local bin folder. If you don't have one set up you can run the following:

git clone https://github.com/kobus-v-schoor/dotgit
mkdir -p ~/.bin
cp -r dotgit/bin/dotgit* ~/.bin
cat dotgit/bin/bash_completion >> ~/.bash_completion
rm -rf dotgit
echo 'export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.bin"' >> ~/.bashrc

To install fish shell completion:

cp dotgit/bin/fish_completion.fish ~/.config/fish/completions/dotgit.fish

(Any help with packaging for a different distro will be appreciated)

Remember that this is simply a git repository so all the usual git tricks work perfectly :)

Create your online git repository, clone it (git clone {repo_url}) and then run dotgit init inside your repository (alias for git init and creating a file and folder needed for dotgit)

Now all you have to do is edit the filelist (help message explains syntax) to your needs and you will be ready to do dotgit update :) The help message will explain the other options available to you, and I would recommend reading it as it has quite a few important notes. If you have any problems or feature requests please inform me of them and I will be glad to help.