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Update dot files with git

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For a years I was using a custom created scripts to keep my dot files updated. I had a local repository in bazaar and a script which check differences between home dot files and files stored in the repository. This solutions works fine for years, but now I want to do some changes…

The first one is moving my dot files to git (and probably pushed them to github), and the second one is to create a hook for git to update my dot files. I known that there are a lot of similar solutions, one more complex, other more easy, but this is mine :)

So, I created a post-commit hook script for git, which perform the modifications that I need. Now I just only do this steps:

1. Create a new git repo:

mkdir mydots_repo
cd my_dots_repo && git init

2. Put the hook:

wget -O .git/hooks/post-commit  http://2tu.us/2scm 
chmod 755 .git/hooks/post-commit

3. Copy old files:

cp ~/old/bzr_repo/* .
git add *

4. Commit and recreate links:

git commit -a -m'initial import'

And it’s works :)

New version of dtools

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Today I was released a new version of dtools. Distributed tools, aka dtools is a project written in bash coding to create a suite of programs to allow running different UNIX comamnds parallelly in a list of tagged hosts.

Features

  • Fully written in bash, no third party software required (except ssh, obviously).
  • Based in module architecture, easy to extend.
  • Full integration with ssh.
  • Easy to group hosts by tags or search by regular expression.
  • Manage of ssh hosts
  • Parseable output, but human-readable
  • Thinking in system admin, no special development skills required to extend the software.

Short Example

$ dt tag:linux ssh date
okay::dt:ssh:myhostlinux1.domain:Mon Nov 16 23:54:04 CET 2009
okay::dt:ssh:myhostlinux3.domain:Mon Nov 16 23:54:04 CET 2009
okay::dt:ssh:myhostlinux2.domain:Mon Nov 16 23:54:04 CET 2009

As usual, you can download the code from the project page, or if you wish you can download the code via git:

git clone git://git.connectical.com/ajdiaz/dtools

Enjoy!