dfm - a utility to manage dotfiles

Overview

dfm is a small utility that manages dotfiles. It:

makes it easy to install (and uninstall) your dotfiles on new servers
easys fetching and merging changes that were pushed from other machines
simplifies working with your dotfiles repository, no matter where your current directory is

Using dfm

dfm works best when it's included in your dotfiles repository. If you don't have a dotfiles repository already, you can use this starter repository.

Overview

This repo is a skeleton/template repo for tracking dotfiles. It contains a utility (dfm) to help with managing and updating your dotfiles.

Using this repo

First, fork this repo.

Then, add your dotfiles:

$ git clone git@github.com:username/dotfiles.git .dotfiles
$ cd .dotfiles
$  # edit files
$  # edit files
$ git push origin master

Finally, to install your dotfiles onto a new system:

$ cd $HOME
$ git clone git@github.com:username/dotfiles.git .dotfiles
$ ./.dotfiles/bin/dfm install # creates symlinks to install files

Install

curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gcatlin/home/master/install.sh | bash

Update dfm

dfm remote add upstream git://github.com/justone/dotfiles.git   # only need to do this once
dfm checkout master
dfm fetch upstream
dfm merge upstream/master

Full documentation

For more information, check out the wiki.

You can also run dfm --help.