#!/bin/sh # this script will install the dotfiles from the target git repository, and back up any conflicting files # credit for the basic outline of this script goes to https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles DOTFILES_REPO_DIR="$HOME/git/dotfiles" DOTFILES_REPO_URL="https://git.blakenorth.net/dotfiles" DOTFILES_BACKUP_DIR="$HOME/.dotfiles-backup_$(date +'%Y-%m-%d_%H:%m:%S')" set -e printf "\n Installing dotfiles from $DOTFILES_REPO_URL\n\n" # check for the git command and exit if it doesn't exist if ! command -v git > /dev/null;then echo 'git is not installed or could not be found in PATH, please install git to proceed' exit 1 fi git clone --bare "$DOTFILES_REPO_URL" "$DOTFILES_REPO_DIR" || echo "Resuming installation" dot() { git --git-dir="$DOTFILES_REPO_DIR" --work-tree="$HOME" "$@" } # remove the '> /dev/null' part if things don't seem to work right if ! dot checkout > /dev/null 2>&1; then echo "Backing up pre-existing dotfiles." mkdir -p "$DOTFILES_BACKUP_DIR" # get the list of files that need to be backed up while read -r LINE; do LINE_DIR="$(dirname "$LINE")" # No file mkdir -p "$DOTFILES_BACKUP_DIR/$LINE_DIR" mv "$HOME/$LINE" "$DOTFILES_BACKUP_DIR/$LINE_DIR" done <<< "$(dot checkout 2>&1 | grep -Po '\t\K.*$')" fi dot checkout dot config status.showUntrackedFiles no printf "\nInstallation complete!\n"