conapp - The easy config applier

A simple project for applying config files from repos/tar files

Example command:

conapp config -u drew887 -b

The above will:

• download a tarball from drew887's config repo on bitbucket (-b)
• take a backup of all the files that are listed in the tarball that would be overridden locally on your system.
• untar the repo into your home directory.

Available commands:

config Command

Used for downloading and applying configs from either Bitbucket or Github.

• list: Lists out configs that are available locally

• apply: Download and apply a config based on username & repo name

• undo: Remove files added by this config and apply last backup taken during its last application

  IE: conapp config undo -u drew887 will:

  • delete all files listed in the currently downloaded config
  • apply the backup snapshot taken when the drew887/config repo was last applied

snapshots Command

Used for managing local backups created by conapp during the config commands

Available sub commands:

• list: List available backups
• apply: Restore a backup
• delete: Delete a backup

local Command

Used to checkout a bare repo and print out a shell (bash for now sorry!) alias to simplify the use of the repo. See https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles for more details on how this can be used.

The basic idea is that it can be used to check out a config but have it be managed by git without clobbering your home folder with a .git folder.

Available sub commands:

• checkout Checkout a bare repo into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/conapp/local/repo
• alias prints out an alias to make using the bare repo easier

Example usage:

#check out the repo
conapp local checkout -b -u drew887
#setup the alias
conapp local info >> ~/.bashrc
#Now you can manage the repo with regular git commands aliased by default to `config`
config status
#regular git output here

Note that you'll probably want to run checkout