Sounds quite a good idea, as when moving from one host to another one, being able to move the dot files would be of high interest. Will try asap as I am currently moving some dotfiles form one old distro to my new Arch one. 2012/3/14 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) <techlivezheng@xxxxxxxxx> > 2012/3/12 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) <techlivezheng@xxxxxxxxx>: > > [Inspired by tomd123@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]( > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=134622), > > I have wrote a small script to deploy the dotfiles acrossing viarous > > hosts, may be you guys are interested to have a look. > > > > Github: https://github.com/techlivezheng/dotploy > > > > Thoughts and advices are very welcome, cause my bash skills are still > > need much improving, there must be some ugly workaround. > > > > Regards, > > Techlive Zheng > > Now it is support deploy dot files based on $HOSTNAME and $USER. If a > dotfile under a specfic $HOSTNAME and $USER location existed, it will > be used. Otherwise, the dot file with same name under $HOSTNAME > directory will be used. Otherwise, under $USER directory in common > directory. At last, if above all failed, the dot file in common > directory will be used. > > This way, we can keep our dot files across several hosts of different > user maintained in a central repo using git or dropbox.Then we can > deploy or change it everywhere. > -- *********************************************************************** My profile: https://plus.google.com/116159236040461325607/about?hl=fr ***********************************************************************