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AutoYADM is a small shell utility to automate the process of managing dotfiles with [YADM](https://github.com/yadm-dev/yadm) by allowing the user to define a list of files & directories to be automatically added, committed and pushed whenever the script is run. **Most notably, AutoYADM accounts for newly created files previously untracked by YADM.**
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## Features
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- Configure a list of files & directories to be automatically tracked by YADM
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- Tracked directories will also track any new files inside them!
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- Automatically add, commit, and push tracked paths
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## Installation
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Simply clone the repository:
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```Bash
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alias autoyadm="/path/to/autoyadm/autoyadm.sh"
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alias yadmadd="/path/to/autoyadm/yadmadd.sh"
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# To enable automatic pushing:
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alias yadmadd="AUTOYADMPUSH=1 /path/to/autoyadm/yadmadd.sh"
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```
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<details>
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AutoYADM maintains a list of files and directories for automatic tracking. _**All** children of tracked directories will be tracked, including newly created, previously untracked files._ For example, if you add your Neovim configuration at `~/.config/nvim` to tracking, then any new files you create inside that folder will automatically be added and committed by AutoYADM.
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> _Both scripts and the `tracking` file **must** be in the same directory._
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> _Both scripts and the `tracked` file **must** be in the same directory._
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> **Important**: Symlinks are _**not**_ added; this is to avoid conflicts with `yadm alt`
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The tracking file contains the paths to tracked files & directories **relative to $HOME**. For example:
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$ yadmadd .bashrc .zshrc .config/nvim
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```
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To remove a target from tracking, simply delete it from the `tracking` file.
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To remove a target from tracking, simply delete it from the `tracked` file.
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> Note: `tracked` is in the `.gitignore` of this repository. If you want to add it to tracking, you will need to remove the `tracked` entry from `.gitignore`. Removing `.git` is not sufficient because YADM respects any `.gitignore` file it encounters.
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### Committing & Pushing
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To automatically commit and add your tracking targets, use `autoyadm.sh`:
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To automatically add and commit your tracking targets, use `autoyadm.sh`:
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```Bash
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$ autoyadm
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```
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By default,
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By default, automatic pushing is disabled. You can enable it with an environment variable:
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```Bash
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$ export AUTOYADMPUSH=1
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$ autoyadm
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# Or you can combine these into one line:
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$ AUTOYADMPUSH=1 autoyadm
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```
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> Note: For auto push to work, ssh-agent must be enabled, and the environment file needs to exist inside `~/.ssh`. Furthermore, you must have SSH setup with your git host.
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### Calling AutoYADM Automatically
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By default, AutoYADM only runs when the user calls it explicitly. If you want to automate this process, you are responsible for setting it up yourself. You may consider configuring a cron job for this. The following example will run AutoYADM every 15 minutes, with automatic push enabled, appending its output to a log file:
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```Bash
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*/15 * * * * AUTOYADMPUSH=1 /path/to/autoyadm/audoyadm.sh >> /path/to/log/file.log
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```
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If you are on Arch Linux, you can follow these instructions to set up the cron job:
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```Bash
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# Install a cron daemon if you
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# don't already have one.
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$ sudo pacman -S cronie
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# This command will open your $EDITOR,
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# you may paste the above cron job configuration here
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# and save the file to apply your changes.
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$ crontab -e
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# Don't forget to enable cronie.service:
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$ systemctl enable cronie
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$ systemctl start cronie
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```
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## Feature Roadmap
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- [ ] Allow custom `tracked` file location & name
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- [ ] Optionally allow symlinks only if they are explicitly added to tracking
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## Contributing
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Contributions are very welcome. This is a very small and simple script, but if you have some improvements or new features, please feel free to submit a PR.
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