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,
I'd be especially grateful.
1 vcsh(1) - manage and sync config files via git
2 ==============================================
6 `vcsh` clone <url> [<repo>]
18 `vcsh` rename <repo> <newname>
20 `vcsh` run <repo> <command>
22 `vcsh` seed-gitignore <repo>
26 `vcsh` <repo> <gitcommand>
31 `vcsh` allows you to have several `git`(1) repositories, all maintaining their
32 working trees in $HOME without clobbering each other. That, in turn, means you
33 can have one repository per config set (zsh, vim, ssh, etc), picking and
34 choosing which configs you want to use on which machine.
36 `vcsh` is using a technique called fake bare git repositories, keeping <$GIT_DIR>
37 in a different directory from <$GIT_WORK_TREE> which is pointed to <$HOME>.
39 The use of symlinks is not needed in this setup, making for a cleaner setup.
41 `vcsh` was designed with `mr`(1) in mind so you might want to install it alongside
42 vcsh. That being said, you can easily use `vcsh` without `mr` if you prefer.
44 A sample configuration for `vcsh` and `mr` can be found at
45 *https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh_mr_template*
47 Please note that you can always use a path instead of a name for <repo>.
48 This is needed to support mr and other scripts properly and of no concern to
54 Clone an existing repository.
57 Delete an existing repository.
60 Enter repository; spawn new <$SHELL>.
66 Initialize an empty repository.
69 List all local vcsh repositories.
75 Run command with <$GIT_DIR> and <$GIT_WORK_TREE> set. Allows you to run any
76 and all commands without any restrictions. Use with care.
79 Seed .gitignore.d/<repo> from git ls-files.
82 Set up repository with recommended settings.
84 * <repo> <gitcommand>:
85 Shortcut to run `vcsh` on a repo. Will prepend `git` to <command> by itself.
89 As noted earlier, `vcsh` will set <$GIT_DIR> and <$GIT_WORK_TREE> to the
90 appropriate values for fake bare git repositories.
92 ## SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
94 `vcsh` allows you to execute arbitrary commands via `vcsh` run. For example,
95 speaking, adding a `sudo`(8) rule for `vcsh` would be pretty stupid.
99 None are known at this time, but reports and/or patches are more than welcome.
103 Like most people, the author initially made do with a single repository for all
104 config files, all of which were soft-linked into <$HOME>.
106 Martin F. Krafft aka madduck came up with the concept of fake bare git
109 vcsh was initally written by madduck. This version is a re-implementation from
110 scratch with a lot more features. madduck graciously agreed to let the author
115 This manpage and `vcsh` itself were written by Richard "RichiH" Hartmann.
119 Copyright 2011 Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>
121 Licensed under the GNU GPL version 3 or higher.
123 https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh