2012/3/12 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) :

[Inspired by tomd123@bbs.archlinux.org](https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=134622), I have wrote a small script to deploy the dotfiles acrossing viarous hosts, may be you guys are interested to have a look.

Github: https://github.com/techlivezheng/dotploy

Thoughts and advices are very welcome, cause my bash skills are still need much improving, there must be some ugly workaround.

Regards, Techlive Zheng

Now it is support deploy dot files based on $HOSTNAME and $USER. If a dotfile under a specfic $HOSTNAME and $USER location existed, it will be used. Otherwise, the dot file with same name under $HOSTNAME directory will be used. Otherwise, under $USER directory in common directory. At last, if above all failed, the dot file in common directory will be used. This way, we can keep our dot files across several hosts of different user maintained in a central repo using git or dropbox.Then we can deploy or change it everywhere.

2012/3/15 arnaud gaboury :

Sounds quite a good idea, as when moving from one host to another one, being able to move the dot files would be of high interest. Will try asap as I am currently moving some dotfiles form one old distro to my new Arch one.

2012/3/14 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng)

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2012/3/12 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) :

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[Inspired by tomd123@bbs.archlinux.org]( https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=134622), I have wrote a small script to deploy the dotfiles acrossing viarous hosts, may be you guys are interested to have a look.

Github: https://github.com/techlivezheng/dotploy

Thoughts and advices are very welcome, cause my bash skills are still need much improving, there must be some ugly workaround.

Regards, Techlive Zheng

Now it is support deploy dot files based on $HOSTNAME and $USER. If a dotfile under a specfic $HOSTNAME and $USER location existed, it will be used. Otherwise, the dot file with same name under $HOSTNAME directory will be used. Otherwise, under $USER directory in common directory. At last, if above all failed, the dot file in common directory will be used.

This way, we can keep our dot files across several hosts of different user maintained in a central repo using git or dropbox.Then we can deploy or change it everywhere.

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Hey, guys, sorry to dig up this old thread, don't know if someone still is interested in this script. I just want to inform you guys that a new version 0.3 is released recently with a bunch of bug fixes as well as a new feature which allows dotploy to deploy .dotfiles from a local path outside the dot files repo or even from a VCS source(currently, only Git is supported) in the same manner as the makepkg does. Check it out: https://github.com/techlivezheng/dotploy