Dotbot rsync Plugin

To be used with dotbot, this plugin allows to sync files from dotfiles repo.

You can now track files that should not be world viewable or require special permissions.

Prerequisites

rsync (version 3.1 or newer) needs to be available on the system and runnuble by the user executing dotbot

Usage

Add the plugin as a submodule to your dotfiles repo:

git submodule add https://github.com/j1r1k/dotbot-sync.git

Execute dotbot with plugin parameter

./install -p dotbot-sync/sync.py

Configuration

All configuration parameters can be specified either globaly in default task or locally for each individual record

Example containing all options enumerated with their default values:

- defaults:
    sync:
      rsync: 'rsync'                        # rsync executable to be used
      options: ['--delete', '--safe-links'] # list of options for rsync
      create: false                         # create missing directory hierarchy
      fmode: 644                            # file mode
      dmode: 755                            # directory mode
      owner: '<current user name>'          # owner (default value is looked up at runtime)
      group: '<current user group>'         # group (default value is looked up at runtime)
      stdout: false                         # ignore stdout of rsync process
      stderr: false                         # ignore stderr of rsync process

- sync:
    ~/.ssh/authorized_keys:
       path: 'ssh/authorized_keys'
       fmode: 400

    ~/.ssh/pubkeys/:
       path: 'ssh/pubkeys/*.pub' # support for glob expressions