backupwithgit

This progam lets you easily set up a quick method to backup a dir using git.

(NOTE: This script should not be used for any serious endeavors like programming. Use git proper for such things, so that you can have better control over everything, especially commit messages.)

For instance, if I want to backup my ~/.dotfiles directory, I can simply type backupdot. This will:

• cd ~/.dotfiles
• git add .
• git commit -m "automatically commited by backupdot"
• cd back to dir I was in

It has some error handling (checks for existance of dir, checks to make sure dir is a git repo), and it can accept some arguments.

Usage

${PROGNAME} [ARGUMENT] [COMMIT_MESSAGE]

To add a directory, edit the portion of backupwithgit that begins with the line case "$PROGNAME" in. Here, you'll want to follow suit and add a new symlink handler, which you can customize the directory and a few behavior flags. Then, you'll want to actually make the symlink to backupwithgit (ln -s backupwithgit your_new_symlink). Test out your new symlink by using your_new_symlink -? to see if the help works.

Arguments

help, -h, -?, --help
    Display a brief help text

push, -p, --push
    Push commit to the repo specified in the script

status, st, -s, --status
    Display the backup status of dir (as in running 'git status')

Any other arguments (or arguments following one of the push arguments) are
used as the commit message. This way, you can type 'backupdot major vimrc
changes' to do the normal 'backupdot' operations but use 'major vimrc
changes' as the commit message instead of the default 'automatically
commited by backupdot'.

Required external programs

• bash (probably won't work in other shells without some modifications)
• git (for obvious reasons)

To Do

• ?