Yet Another Dotfiles Arranger

In your dotfiles' folder:

git clone https://github.com/nobe4/yada.git .yada

Then, to install all links, binaries and run the install files:

.yada/install

I used for quite a time the holman's dotfiles manager. I really liked the organisation around topics and custom file extensions.

But I didn't like to have his whole configuration to fetch on installation, I think the dotfiles manager should be separated from the actual dotfiles. So I started working on this.

It follows roughly the same principles:

• One folder per topic (git, vim, tmux, ...)
• The install scripts are run on installation
• The *.link and *.bin are linked on install

That's all. Now, depending on your preferences, you may want to setup a .zshrc sourcing all *.zsh, adding the .yada/bin folder to your path like in this file.

By default, and for the seek of simplicity, during the link step, if a file already exists, it backups it with another name, so you can manage by hand afterwards.

The file will be linked direcly into your $HOME folder, removing the trailing .link.

e.g.

 vim/.vimrc.link -> ~/.vimrc
 tmux/.tmux.conf.link -> ~/.tmux.conf

The file will be linked into the .yada/bin directory, which I recommand you add into your path to use all defined scripts. The same naming transformation applies:

e.g.

git/git-time.bin -> .yada/bin/git-time
zsh/ctrl-z.bin -> .yada/bin/ctrl-z

The file will be run when you run the install script.

e.g.

vim/install
tmux/install

• How about the dependencies, if I have to run a specific install file before all others (e.g. install homebrew) ?

  Just name your folder 0_homebrew, it will be used first when searching all the install files.

• How do I configure my .*shrc file to work with this ?

  The structure follows the same as Holman's one, so you can clearly inspire yourslef with this .zshrc.symlink or my .zshrc.link. I don't want to add this file into the yada project because you may not want it, it really depends on your needs.

Other questions ...

This is clearly a work in progress, it only works for zsh right now, but I plan on adding some new features as well as being able to use on other shells.

Fell free to open an issue or a pull request, any contribution is welcome!

MIT