# HG changeset patch # User Steve Losh # Date 1579316637 18000 # Node ID 4c4f8c5324e8e23ee42d4477d3fca326adb292b1 # Parent 858e9ebe5a9af32897d97ce8510633c029b2ef4f Update diff -r 858e9ebe5a9a -r 4c4f8c5324e8 README.markdown --- a/README.markdown Fri Jan 17 13:03:46 2020 -0500 +++ b/README.markdown Fri Jan 17 22:03:57 2020 -0500 @@ -35,3 +35,20 @@ Finished the `hg.stevelosh.com` reskin on my lunch break. Just had to get the `README`s looking decent. + +Finally figured out a strategy for syncing a small subset of my dotfiles onto +remote servers easily, so I don't have to be completely miserable on them. +Goals: + +* Needs to provide a reasonable subset of the stuff I use to get around. +* Needs to handle servers with both bash and fish. +* Needs to be easily syncable with a single command and no extra setup. +* Needs to handle servers that don't have git or Mercurial. + +Ended up making a `remote/` folder in my dotfiles. Almost everything inside it +is a symlink except for a `bootstrap.sh`. The folder gets `rsync +--copy-links`ed over and then `bootstrap.sh` will symlink all the resulting +files into their places. Hopefully this should be easier to maintain. Did +a bunch of cleanup on my bash and fish setups while I was at it. + +