feat: support dotfiles or something equivalent

[kemingy]

Description

Codespace/Gitpod supports dotfiles to init the dev environments.

• https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces/customizing-your-codespace/personalizing-github-codespaces-for-your-account#dotfiles

So far, envd can set up the shell prompt. But still lack some features. Maybe we can find a way to support dotfiles or something equivalent.

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[Triple-Z]

Can the envd clone from the dotfile repo that the user has configured and replaces the dotfiles in the user directory while building the envd images?

[gaocegege]

It is possible, I think.

[hxu296]

Hi, it sounds like envdlib is a trivial way to implement this? For example, having a dotfiles.envd that accepts a github repository link as parameter and setups dotfiles from there, so users can do

envdlib.dotfiles(repo="https://github.com/hxu296/mydotfiles")

Thanks to the power of envdlib.

[kemingy]

Hi, it sounds like envdlib is a trivial way to implement this? For example, having a dotfiles.envd that accepts a github repository link as parameter and setups dotfiles from there, so users can do

envdlib.dotfiles(repo="https://github.com/hxu296/mydotfiles")

This might be possible. You can try it. Thanks.