Dotypasta

Dotypasta let you easily fetch, save and apply dotfiles.
Inspired by chezmoi

Installation

dotypasta is still in early development
If you want to give it a shot, clone the repository and cargo build

Convention & Configuration

Dotypasta relies on two things:

• a .dotypastarc in your home directory, it tells dotypasta which files must be copied.
• a dotypasta folder at ~/.local/share/, usually a git repostory, where all the dotfiles are stored.

~/.dotypastarc

This is a simple flat toml file.

dotypasta = [".dotypastarc"]
zsh = [".zshrc", ".oh-my-zsh/custom/themes/nizil.zsh"]
i3 = [".config/i3/config", ".config/i3blocks/config"]
vi = [".vimrc", ".config/nvim/init.vim"]

With such config file, dotypasta has 4 apps defined (dotypasta, zsh, i3 and vi) with their respective files. It expects to find this files in the dotypasta directory (see below).

~/.local/share/dotypasta/

Using the load subcommand, dotypasta clone a repository named dotfiles from a specified user at $HOME/.local/share/dotypasta.
This directory must respect a structure commonly used among dotfiles repository, i.e. the root of the directory is supposed to be your home.

In the previous example, the repository must have .dotypastarc, .zshrc, .vimrc at the root of the repository, a config file in a directory .config/i3/, and so on.

Features roadmap

•  dotypasta load <username> clone a dotfiles repository
  •  --hub [github | gitlab | bitbucket ... ] to select the git host
  •  -t <reference> to load a specific tag or branch
    • fix the detached head issue
  • --ssh to clone the repository using ssh
  • --apply to directly apply the configuration
• dotypasta clear to delete $HOME/.local/share/dotypasta
• dotypasta config <appname> show you the files copied for appname as configured in .dotypastarc
  • dotypasta config <appname> -a <file> -a <file2>... add all files to the appname configuration
  •  dotypasta config <appname> -d <file> -d <file2>... delete all files from the appname configuration
•  dotypasta diff show you the difference between the loaded dotfiles and your current configuration
  • --app <appname> --app <appname2>... to see the difference for specific apps
•  dotypasta apply copy all the dotfiles from the loaded configuration to the host
  • --app <appname> --app <appname2>... to apply the configuration for specific apps
•  dotypasta save copy all the dotfiles from the host to the local repository
  • --app <appname> --app <appname2>... to backup dotfiles for specific apps
  • automatically commit & push
    • -m <message> to edit the commit message
• improved UI/UX
  • using indicatif
  • maybe console and dialoguer