Allows one to store files in a directory or git-repo without the leading
`.`, as in:
```
dotconf:
├── README.md
├── bin
│ ├── dotbot
│ ├── look
│ ├── pbfile
│ └── ...
├── dot
│ ├── bashrc
│ ├── gitconfig
│ ├── gitignore
│ ├── gorc
│ ├── login
│ ├── ...
│ ├── zshrc
│ └── zshenv
```
Can take a many-line dotbot.yml listing **each** file in `dotconf/dot`,
reducing it to five lines:
```
- link:
~/:
path: dotconf/dot/*
glob: true
prefix: '.'
```
FIXES: #259
For example, will handle an entire directory tree of files, linking all
files:
```
- link:
~/.config/:
path: dotconf/config/**
glob: true
```
NOTE, this feature requires newer versions of `glob()` (Python >= 3.5),
and `dotbot` will throw an error if using an earlier version of python.
For testing purposes, added:
- ability to skip tests in test harness
- added testing for older Python(s).
FIXES: #270
- Added `exclude` parameter to _link_. Now, an array of glob patterns
can be given that will be used to remove items from a glob match.
This parameter will only have an effect when `glob` is `true`.
- Updated README to add description for `exclude` and add in examples.
Resolves#247
This patch adds parameter/explanation tables for the two other commands
that support extended configuration syntaxes, so now we have
identically-formatted tables for link, shell, and clean.
This change was prompted by
https://github.com/anishathalye/dotbot/issues/223.
Without an explanation of what's going on here, this example is
unnecessarily confusing. It's a neat example, but probably not worth
explaining this in Dotbot's README.
See https://github.com/anishathalye/dotbot/issues/224.
Dotbot had a hardcoded behaviour that the BASEDIR was always passed to
os.path.realpath which "returns the canonical path of the specified
filename, eliminating any symbolic links encountered in the path".
This might not always be desirable so this commit makes it configurable.
The use case where `canonicalize-path` comes in handy is the following:
You want to provide dotfiles in the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard under
`/usr/local/share/ypid_dotfiles/`. Now you want to provide
`.config/dotfiles` as a default in `/etc/skel`. When you now
pre-configure `/etc/skel` by running dotbot in it set has HOME, dotfiles
will refer to `/usr/local/share/ypid_dotfiles/` and not
`/etc/skel/.config/dotfiles` which does not look nice.
This is related to but not the same as the `relative` parameter used
with link commands.
