dotfile-manager

This is my attempt to write a basic package manager to let me install my dotfiles from various locations on GitHub. I chose to write a package manager instead of keeping them all in one place such that I would be able to decouple as much as possible.

INSTALLING THE TOOL

To install dotfile-manager you have two primary options. The first is manually download and build the source code, while the other is relying upon go get instead.

First, go get: go get github.com/crockeo/dotfile-manager. Doing this will put an executable into your $GOPATH/bin folder. Alternatively you can install it through manually building the source code:

# Making the directory to clone into.
$ mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/crockeo

# Moving to the directory.
$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/crockeo

# Getting the code
$ git clone http://github.com/crockeo/dotfile-manager

# Moving into the directory.
$ cd dotfile-manager

# Building
$ go build

# Moving the executable into the GOPATH's bin.
$ mv ./dotfile-manager $GOPATH/bin

INSTALLING PACKAGES

Assuming that dotfile-manager is in the $PATH, you can simply run:

$ dotfile-manager install <package/name>

The package name should be in the form of author/repository. For instance, my repository for vim configuration which is hosted at http://github.com/crockeo/vimconfig would be installed like so:

$ dotfile-manager install crockeo/vimconfig

LICENSE

Check out the LICENSE folder for specific licensing information. (Hint: It's licensed under the MIT License.)