X-Git-Url: https://git.madduck.net/code/vcsh.git/blobdiff_plain/5e352846b9d840bf9370f7b5ea9052c82b07f2c6..eff7e0e63171e4800dd24ccf0453e892fa16fb4f:/doc/vcsh.1.ronn diff --git a/doc/vcsh.1.ronn b/doc/vcsh.1.ronn index 6755768..d68e886 100644 --- a/doc/vcsh.1.ronn +++ b/doc/vcsh.1.ronn @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -vcsh(1) - manage and sync config files via git -============================================== +vcsh(1) - manage config files in $HOME via fake bare git repositories +===================================================================== ## SYNOPSIS @@ -111,10 +111,44 @@ an interactive user. As noted earlier, `vcsh` will set <$GIT_DIR> and <$GIT_WORK_TREE> to the appropriate values for fake bare git repositories. +## HOOK SYSTEM + +`vcsh` provides a hook system. Hook scripts must be executable and should be +placed in <$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/vcsh/hooks-available>. From there, they can be +soft-linked into <$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/vcsh/hooks-enabled>; `vcsh` will only +execute hooks that are in this directory. + +Hooks follow a simple format. will be run before anything is run. +If you want to have more than one script for a certain hook, just append +any kind of string to order them. A system of , , + etc is suggested; other options would be or +. A dot after the hook name is optional. + +If you want to create hooks for a specific repository, simply prepend +the repository's name, followed by a dot, i.e. . Otherwise, the +same rules as above apply. The dot between the repository's name and the hook +is mandatory, though. + +Available hooks are , , , , +, and . If you need more, vcsh is trivial to patch, +but please let upstream know so we can ship them by default. + +## DETAILED HOWTO AND FURTHER READING + +Man pages are intended to be short and thus often useless to glean best +practices from. This software comes with a file called . It contains +various approaches to setting up and using vcsh. You can view the file it as +plain text or render it into various other formats via Markdown. + +On Debian-based systems, this file can be found in . + ## SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS `vcsh` allows you to execute arbitrary commands via `vcsh` run. For example, -speaking, adding a `sudo`(8) rule for `vcsh` would be pretty stupid. +adding a `sudo`(8) rule for `vcsh` would be pretty stupid. + +Additionally, vcsh will source, i.e. execute, <$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/vcsh/config>. +You can put any and all commands into this config file and they will be executed. ## BUGS @@ -138,7 +172,7 @@ This manpage and `vcsh` itself were written by Richard "RichiH" Hartmann. ## COPYRIGHT -Copyright 2011 Richard Hartmann +Copyright 2011-2012 Richard Hartmann Licensed under the GNU GPL version 3 or higher.