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#### kot
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### kot
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Learning to program in Rust by making myself a Linux CLI tool to help manage dotfiles and configurations.
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There are many other tools to manage dotfiles that work just fine. For now, this is intended to be just for my own learning / use and not a general dotfiles management utility.
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`kot` is a CLI for managing Linux dotfiles configurations that helps to automate the setup process
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across various applications without risking the loss of local configurations currently on the system.
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This helps to protect against installing broken dotfiles by providing a way to reverse the installation
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and return the system back to the previous state.
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The installation process creates symbolic links, much like what you would expect when using [stow](https://linux.die.net/man/8/stow).
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`kot` can install dotfiles from any directory, using any target directory. To test how `kot` might behave,
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you could point `--install-dir` to any directory that you've created for testing.
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This directory could be empty, or it could contain another set of dotfiles. `kot` will attempt
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to install the configurations. If conflicts are detected, output shows the conflicts and
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prompts to abort or continue. An example of this is seen below.
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```bash
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kot dotfiles/dot/
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args: Cli { dotfiles_dir: "/home/kapper/Code/kot/dotfiles/dot", install_dir: "/home/kapper/Code/kot/dry-runs/kapper", backup_dir: "/home/kapper/Code/kot/backups/kapper", force: false }
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The following configurations already exist:
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"/home/kapper/Code/kot/dry-runs/kapper/.bashrc"
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"/home/kapper/Code/kot/dry-runs/kapper/.config"
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"/home/kapper/Code/kot/dry-runs/kapper/README.md"
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"/home/kapper/Code/kot/dry-runs/kapper/VimScreenshot.png"
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"/home/kapper/Code/kot/dry-runs/kapper/fix-vbox.sh"
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"/home/kapper/Code/kot/dry-runs/kapper/.git"
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"/home/kapper/Code/kot/dry-runs/kapper/.bash_aliases"
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"/home/kapper/Code/kot/dry-runs/kapper/.gitignore"
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"/home/kapper/Code/kot/dry-runs/kapper/.gitmodules"
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"/home/kapper/Code/kot/dry-runs/kapper/.vimrc"
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"/home/kapper/Code/kot/dry-runs/kapper/.vim"
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If you continue, backups will be made in "/home/kapper/Code/kot/backups/kapper". Any configurations there will be overwritten.
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Abort? Enter y/n or Y/N:
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```
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If there are already files within the backup directory, `kot` will exit and show an error message.
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This is to protect existing backups from being merged with configs from subsequent runs.
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If you want to erase these backups and create a new backup, rerun the command with the `--force` flag set.
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Otherwise, specify a different backup directory with the `--backup-dir` option.
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If the backup directory does not exist, it will be created.
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```bash
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kot dotfiles/dot/
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thread 'main' panicked at '
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Error: Backups already exist at "/home/kapper/Code/kot/backups/kapper"
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Set the --force flag to overwrite configurations stored here', src/kot/kcli.rs:94:17
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note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace
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```
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#### Installation
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Follow [Rustup instructions](https://rustup.rs/) to setup the Rust toolchain
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Then to build and run `kot`, run the following commands
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To build and install `kot` run the following commands
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```bash
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git clone https://gitlab.com/shaunrd0/kot && cd kot
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cargo build
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./target/debug/kot --help
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cargo install --path .
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kot --help
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kot 0.1.0
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CLI utility for managing Linux user configurations
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CLI for managing Linux user configurations
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USAGE:
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kot [OPTIONS] <config>
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kot [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] <dotfiles-dir>
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FLAGS:
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-f, --force Overwrites existing backups
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-h, --help Prints help information
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-V, --version Prints version information
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OPTIONS:
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--backup-dir <backup-dir> The location to store backups for this user [default: backups/kapper]
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--home-dir <install-dir> The location to attempt installation of user configurations [default: dry-
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-b, --backup-dir <backup-dir> The location to store backups for this user [default: backups/kapper]
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-i, --install-dir <install-dir> The location to attempt installation of user configurations [default: dry-
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runs/kapper]
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ARGS:
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<config> Local or full path to user configurations to install
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<dotfiles-dir> Local or full path to user configurations to install
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```
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#### Dotfiles Management
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To store dotfiles, this repository uses submodules. To update surface-level submodules, we can run the following commands
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```bash
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git submodule update --init
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Submodule path 'dot': checked out '7877117d5bd413ecf35c86efb4514742d8136843'
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```
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@ -70,4 +122,3 @@ Submodule path 'dotfiles/dot/.vim/bundle/vim-airline': checked out 'cb1bc19064d3
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Submodule path 'dotfiles/dot/.vim/bundle/vim-airline-themes': checked out 'd148d42d9caf331ff08b6cae683d5b210003cde7'
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Submodule path 'dotfiles/dot/.vim/bundle/vim-signify': checked out 'b2a0450e23c63b75bbeabf4f0c28f9b4b2480689'
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```
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