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anishathalye
A tool that bootstraps your dotfiles ⚡️
A dry-run option would be nice (e.g: `./install --dry-run`). It would allow testing new configs without wrecking your home.
Dotbot is used by [multiple](https://github.com/anishathalye/dotbot/issues/49#issuecomment-251576495) [users](https://github.com/anishathalye/dotbot/issues/124) — [including me](https://github.com/nagromc/machine-configuration/blob/4e1231bb409ccc2a2efa23c186c546a1e1ff3443/install.conf.yaml) — to symlink files in folders that need `root` privileges. It would be nice to add an option (just like `path`...
Hi, thank you for maintaining such a great tool. Currently, Dotbot shows the command if its `quiet` option is set to `true` but no description. Is it intended behavior? For...
The current CLI supports both: - `-q` - quiet - `-Q` - really-quiet What I would find really useful is an option to print only actions taken. If no action...
Hi, first of all thanks for this great resource. I get confused by the use of the words target/source, for eg in describing the [`Link` directive](https://github.com/anishathalye/dotbot#format): > Link commands are...
Hey, i'm pretty new to everything and i cant figure out how to add multiple plugins. i have the plugins in a folder called "dotbot-plugins" and every plugin is in...
I have an enhancement to propose: Allowing an `if` property (which would work just like the `link` option) on the top-level tasks, alongside each directive. If the executed command is...
Years ago I wrote my own bootstrapping scripts in bash, but then I found this a while back. I had wanted to use python to parse yaml files for better...
Something I'm currently doing is grouping related commands by their goal rather than their type, i.e. instead of having all the links together, I have: ``` yaml #### vim ####...
Dotbot 2.0
This issue is meant for tracking work on Dotbot v2.0, the first major release since v1.0 in March 2014. All features that are backwards compatible are being included in Dotbot...
