All patches and comments are welcome. Please squash your changes to logical
commits before using git-format-patch and git-send-email to
patches@git.madduck.net.
If you'd read over the Git project's submission guidelines and adhered to them,
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1 vcsh(1) - manage config files in $HOME via fake bare git repositories
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6 `vcsh` clone <url> [<repo>]
20 `vcsh` list-tracked-by <repo>
22 `vcsh` rename <repo> <newname>
24 `vcsh` run <repo> <command>
28 `vcsh` write-gitignore <repo>
30 `vcsh` <repo> <gitcommand>
37 `vcsh` allows you to have several `git`(1) repositories, all maintaining their
38 working trees in $HOME without clobbering each other. That, in turn, means you
39 can have one repository per config set (zsh, vim, ssh, etc), picking and
40 choosing which configs you want to use on which machine.
42 `vcsh` is using a technique called fake bare git repositories, keeping <$GIT_DIR>
43 in a different directory from <$GIT_WORK_TREE> which is pointed to <$HOME>.
45 The use of symlinks is not needed in this setup, making for a cleaner setup.
47 `vcsh` was designed with `mr`(1) in mind so you might want to install it alongside
48 vcsh. That being said, you can easily use `vcsh` without `mr` if you prefer.
50 A sample configuration for `vcsh` and `mr` can be found at
51 *https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh_mr_template* and used with `vcsh clone
52 https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh_mr_template mr`.
54 Please note that you can always use a path instead of a name for <repo>.
55 This is needed to support mr and other scripts properly and of no concern to
61 Clone an existing repository.
64 Delete an existing repository.
67 Enter repository; spawn new <$SHELL>.
73 Initialize an empty repository.
76 List all local vcsh repositories.
79 List all files tracked by vcsh.
82 List files tracked by a repository.
88 Run command with <$GIT_DIR> and <$GIT_WORK_TREE> set. Allows you to run any
89 and all commands without any restrictions. Use with care.
91 Please note that there is a somewhat magic feature for run. Instead of <repo>
92 it accepts <path>, as well. Anything that has a slash in it will be assumed to
93 be a path. `vcsh run` will then operate on this directory instead of the one
94 normally generated from the repository's name.
95 This is needed to support mr and other scripts properly and of no concern to
99 Set up repository with recommended settings.
102 Write .gitignore.d/<repo> via git ls-files.
104 * <repo> <gitcommand>:
105 Shortcut to run `vcsh` on a repo. Will prepend `git` to <command> by itself.
108 Shortcut to run `vcsh enter <repo>`.
112 As noted earlier, `vcsh` will set <$GIT_DIR> and <$GIT_WORK_TREE> to the
113 appropriate values for fake bare git repositories.
117 `vcsh` provides a hook system. Hook scripts must be executable and should be
118 placed in <$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/vcsh/hooks-available>. From there, they can be
119 soft-linked into <$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/vcsh/hooks-enabled>; `vcsh` will only
120 execute hooks that are in this directory.
122 Hooks follow a simple format. <pre-run> will be run before anything is run.
123 If you want to have more than one script for a certain hook, just append
124 any kind of string to order them. A system of <pre-run>, <pre-run.10>,
125 <pre-run.20> etc is suggested; other options would be <pre-run-10> or
126 <pre-run.sh>. A dot after the hook name is optional.
128 If you want to create hooks for a specific <vcsh> repository, simply prepend
129 the repository's name, followed by a dot, i.e. <zsh.pre-run>. Otherwise, the
130 same rules as above apply. The dot between the repository's name and the hook
131 is mandatory, though.
133 Available hooks are <pre-enter>, <post-enter>, <pre-run>, <post-run>,
134 <pre-setup>, and <post-setup>. If you need more, vcsh is trivial to patch,
135 but please let upstream know so we can ship them by default.
137 ## DETAILED HOWTO AND FURTHER READING
139 Man pages are intended to be short and thus often useless to glean best
140 practices from. This software comes with a file called <README.md>. It contains
141 various approaches to setting up and using vcsh. You can view the file it as
142 plain text or render it into various other formats via Markdown.
144 On Debian-based systems, this file can be found in </usr/share/doc/vcsh>.
146 ## SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
148 `vcsh` allows you to execute arbitrary commands via `vcsh` run. For example,
149 adding a `sudo`(8) rule for `vcsh` would be pretty stupid.
151 Additionally, vcsh will source, i.e. execute, <$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/vcsh/config>.
152 You can put any and all commands into this config file and they will be executed.
156 None are known at this time, but reports and/or patches are more than welcome.
160 Like most people, the author initially made do with a single repository for all
161 config files, all of which were soft-linked into <$HOME>.
163 Martin F. Krafft aka madduck came up with the concept of fake bare git
166 vcsh was initally written by madduck. This version is a re-implementation from
167 scratch with a lot more features. madduck graciously agreed to let the author
172 This manpage and `vcsh` itself were written by Richard "RichiH" Hartmann.
176 Copyright 2011-2012 Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>
178 Licensed under the GNU GPL version 3 or higher.
180 https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh