Awesome
Ellipsis
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\/_/ \/_/ \/_/ …because $HOME is where the <3 is!
Ellipsis is a package manager for dotfiles.
Features
- Creating new packages is trivial (any git repository is already a package).
- Modular configuration files are easier to maintain and share with others.
- Allows you to quickly see which dotfiles have been modified, and keep them updated and in-sync across systems.
- Adding new dotfiles to your collection can be automated with
ellipsis add
. - Cross platform, known to work on Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD and even Cygwin.
- Large test suite to ensure your
$HOME
doesn't get ravaged. - Completely customizable.
- Works with existing dotfiles!
Install
Requirements: bash, curl, git
Clone and symlink or use handy-dandy installer:
# Manual install
$ git clone https://github.com/ellipsis/ellipsis .ellipsis
# Using installer
$ curl ellipsis.sh | sh
<sup>...no you didn't read that wrong, the ellipsis.sh website also doubles as the installer</sup>
With the installer you can also specify which packages to install by setting
the PACKAGES
variable, i.e.:
$ curl https://ellipsis.sh | PACKAGES='vim zsh' sh
Add ~/.ellipsis/bin
to your $PATH
(or symlink somewhere convenient) and
start managing your dotfiles in style :)
As of version 1.7.3
you can also use the init system to
automatically setup you environment. As a bonus it will allow you to use the
powerful pkg.init
hook to do the same for your packages.
Usage
Ellipsis comes with no dotfiles out of the box. To install packages, use
ellipsis install
. Packages can be specified by github-user/repo or full
ssh/git/http(s) urls:
$ ellipsis install ssh://github.com/zeekay/private.git
$ ellipsis install zeekay/vim
$ ellipsis install zsh
...all work. By convention username/package
and package
are aliases for
https://github.com/username/dot-package. (customizable using ELLIPSIS_PREFIX
)
For full usage information you can read the docs or ask help from
the command line with the -h
option.
Configuration
You can customize ellipsis by exporting a few different variables:
Variable | Description |
---|---|
GITHUB_USER / ELLIPSIS_USER | Customizes whose dotfiles are installed when you ellipsis install without specifying user or a full repo url. Defaults to $(git config github.user) or whoami . |
ELLIPSIS_REPO | Customize location of ellipsis repo cloned during a curl-based install. Defaults to https://github.com/ellipsis/ellipsis . |
ELLIPSIS_PROTO | Customizes which protocol new packages are cloned with, you can specify https ,ssh , git . Defaults to https . |
ELLIPSIS_PREFIX | Customizes the prefix of ellipsis configuration packages (default: dot- ). |
ELLIPSIS_HOME | Customize which folder files are symlinked into, defaults to $HOME . (Mostly useful for testing) |
ELLIPSIS_PATH | Customize where ellipsis lives on your filesystem, defaults to ~/.ellipsis . |
ELLIPSIS_PACKAGES | Customize where ellipsis installs packages on your filesystem, defaults to ~/.ellipsis/packages . |
ELLIPSIS_LOGFILE | Customize location of the logfile, defaults to /tmp/ellipsis.log . |
export ELLIPSIS_USER="zeekay"
export ELLIPSIS_PROTO="ssh"
export ELLIPSIS_PATH="~/.el"
Packages
A package is any repo with files you want to symlink into $ELLIPSIS_HOME
(typically $HOME
). By default all of a repository's non-hidden files (read:
not beginning with a .
) will naively be linked into place, with the exception
of a few common text files (README
, LICENSE
, etc).
You can customize how ellipsis interacts with your package by adding an
ellipsis.sh
file to the root of your project. Here's an example of a complete
ellipsis.sh
file:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
Yep, that's it :) If all you want to do is symlink some files into $HOME
,
adding an ellipsis.sh
to your package is completely optional. But what if you
need more? That's where hooks come in...
Docs
Please consult the docs for more information.
Specific parts that could be off interest:
Development
Pull requests welcome! New code should follow the existing style (and ideally include tests).
Suggest a feature or report a bug? Create an issue!
License
Ellipsis is open-source software licensed under the MIT license.