dotcopy

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dotcopy

Dotcopy tries to solve the following problem:

I want to have the same dotfiles across all of my machines, but with a couple change between them

Installation

For a quick install:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FireSquid6/dotcopy/main/scripts/install.sh | bash

You can also manually download and extract the tarball from the latest release.

Package Managers

We're looking for maintainers! If you'd like to package dotcopy on your distro I would highly encourage you to do so!

Example

Let's imagine the following dotfile (it's my kitty config):

editor              nvim
font_family 	      FiraCode Nerd Font

background #1a1b26
foreground #c0caf5
selection_background #283457
selection_foreground #c0caf5
url_color #73daca
cursor #c0caf5
cursor_text_color #1a1b26

# Tabs
active_tab_background #7aa2f7
active_tab_foreground #16161e
inactive_tab_background #292e42
inactive_tab_foreground #545c7e
#tab_bar_background #15161e

# Windows
active_border_color #7aa2f7
inactive_border_color #292e42

...

Let's also say I have two machines: laptop and desktop. On my desktop I want to have the font as Hasklug, while on my laptop I want it to be FiraCode. This could be done with two different configs, but I want everything else to be the same and track my dotfiles with git. Dotcopy comes to the rescue!

I define the following dotcopy config:

files:
  - ".config/kitty/kitty.conf":
      template: "kitty.conf"
      slots:
        - "{font}":
          laptop: "FiraCode Nerd Font"
          desktop: "Hasklug Nerd Font"

Now, if I replace the font parameter in a local kitty.conf, I can run dotcopy build to build the kitty.conf and put it in the correct place. Dotcopy will automatically detect which profile to use with either the -p tag or the system hostname

FAQ

Why use this when home manger exists?

Home manager is great! However, it has some things that make it not perfect for everyone:

• it only works on nix
• it forces everything to be in nix (not a bad thing, just not what everyone wants)
• you can't do the different stuff for different machines with home-manager (ig you could import stuff from a different file in gitignore maybe but that's a pain)

Doesn't this waste disk space having nearly duplicate files?

cry me a river about your few kilobytes.