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 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*
53 Please note that you can always use a path instead of a name for <repo>.
54 This is needed to support mr and other scripts properly and of no concern to
60 Clone an existing repository.
63 Delete an existing repository.
66 Enter repository; spawn new <$SHELL>.
72 Initialize an empty repository.
75 List all local vcsh repositories.
78 List all files tracked by vcsh.
81 List files tracked by a repository.
87 Run command with <$GIT_DIR> and <$GIT_WORK_TREE> set. Allows you to run any
88 and all commands without any restrictions. Use with care.
90 Please note that there is a somewhat magic feature for run. Instead of <repo>
91 it accepts <path>, as well. Anything that has a slash in it will be assumed to
92 be a path. `vcsh run` will then operate on this directory instead of the one
93 normally generated from the repository's name.
94 This is needed to support mr and other scripts properly and of no concern to
98 Set up repository with recommended settings.
101 Write .gitignore.d/<repo> via git ls-files.
103 * <repo> <gitcommand>:
104 Shortcut to run `vcsh` on a repo. Will prepend `git` to <command> by itself.
107 Shortcut to run `vcsh enter <repo>`.
111 As noted earlier, `vcsh` will set <$GIT_DIR> and <$GIT_WORK_TREE> to the
112 appropriate values for fake bare git repositories.
116 `vcsh` provides a hook system. Hook scripts need to be executable and placed
117 in <$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/vcsh/hooks-available>. From there, they should be
118 soft-linked <$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/vcsh/hooks-enabled>.
120 Hooks follow a simple format. `pre-run` will be run before anything is run.
121 If you want to have more than one script for a certain hook, just append
122 strings to order them. A system of `pre-run`, `pre-run.10`, `pre-run.20` etc
123 is suggested. The dot it optional.
125 If you want to create hooks for a specific `vcsh` repository, simply prepend
126 the repository's name, followed by a dot, i.e. `zsh.pre-run`. This dot is
129 ## DETAILED HOWTO AND FURTHER READING
131 Man pages are intended to be short and thus often useless to glean best
132 practices from. This software comes with a file called <README.md>. It contains
133 various approaches to setting up and using vcsh. You can view the file it as
134 plain text or render it into various other formats via Markdown.
136 On Debian-based systems, this file can be found in </usr/share/doc/vcsh>.
138 ## SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
140 `vcsh` allows you to execute arbitrary commands via `vcsh` run. For example,
141 adding a `sudo`(8) rule for `vcsh` would be pretty stupid.
143 Additionally, vcsh will source, i.e. execute, <$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/vcsh/config>.
144 You can put any and all commands into this config file and they will be executed.
148 None are known at this time, but reports and/or patches are more than welcome.
152 Like most people, the author initially made do with a single repository for all
153 config files, all of which were soft-linked into <$HOME>.
155 Martin F. Krafft aka madduck came up with the concept of fake bare git
158 vcsh was initally written by madduck. This version is a re-implementation from
159 scratch with a lot more features. madduck graciously agreed to let the author
164 This manpage and `vcsh` itself were written by Richard "RichiH" Hartmann.
168 Copyright 2011 Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>
170 Licensed under the GNU GPL version 3 or higher.
172 https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh