How do I port over a ".dotfiles" repo?

[davedash]

I use .zsh and have a fairly custom .dotfiles repo... how would I even begin to add this?

I'm new to chef, so my first instinct as a step 1 is to just write a recipe that exec's git to pull it down and exec the init script - but is there a better way?

Also how do I get ktichenplan to run custom recipes?

[roderik]

I can see the value of this kind of dot file system over the included bashrc system for the dotfiles cookbook.

I would create a recipe very similar to https://github.com/kitchenplan/chef-dotfiles/blob/master/recipes/projects.rb

I would put the target location, got source and install command in an attribute. Since the repo can be a lot of things, maybe even an array of this list, like the projects recipe.

Additionally, I can see that you sometimes want these settings for more than your current user (root for example), so also add a loop for "dotfile users" like we do for vim https://github.com/kitchenplan/chef-dotfiles/blob/master/recipes/vim.rb

You can do this by forking the dotfiles chef cookbook repo, adding the recipe and changing the source in the /opt/kitchenplan/Cheffile to your fork. Also remove the version constraint to get "master".

After testing, send a pull request