dots

Manage dotfiles with system-specific changes.

Planning

• There are layers for different systems
• Layers have modules representing the configs to be managed
• Layers can also have patches for modules specifying how to change the config for the particular system
• Modules are specified just like for GNU stow
• We handle patches without cluttering git by computing the inverse of a diff to apply to undo a patch and doing some yet-to-be-determined magic to make git not mark the configs as modified.
  • Maybe clever use of a hidden directory with copies of the original files and .gitignore modifications to hide changes to the "real" files? We'd need to be careful with synchronization and have a plan for undoing this setup to move away from the dots tool.