Baldwin

This is a conversion of my simple scripts to version my home directory with very specific excludes and formatting every file upon commit so that readable diffs can be generated.

Installation

Pip

pip install baldwin

Usage

 $ bw -h
Usage: bw [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  Manage a home directory with Git.

Options:
  -d, --debug  Enable debug logging.
  -h, --help   Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  auto-commit
  format
  git
  info
  init
  install-units

In addition to the bw command, hgit is a shortcut for bw git.

Start a new repository

bw init

Find out where the Git directory is by running bw info. This can be done even if init has not been run.

Automation

systemd

bw install-units

This will install a timer that will automatically make a new commit every 6 hours. It does not push.

Keep in mind that systemd units require a full path to the executable, so you must keep the unit up-to-date if you move where you install this package. Simply run bw install-units again.

Note that user systemd units only run while logged in.

To disable and remove the units, use the following commands:

systemctl disable --now home-vcs.timer
rm ~/.config/systemd/user/home-vcs.*

Pushing

To push, use either of the following:

• bw git push
• hgit push

The above also demonstrates that bw git/hgit are just frontends to git with the correct environment applied.

Formatting

If Prettier is installed, it will be used to format files. The configuration used comes with this package. Having consistent formatting allows for nice diffs to be generated.

If you have initialised a repository without having prettier or jq in PATH, you need to run the following commands to enable readable diffs:

hgit config diff.json.textconv 'jq -MS .'
hgit config diff.json.cachetextconv true
hgit config diff.yaml.textconv 'prettier --no-editorconfig --parser yaml'
hgit config diff.yaml.cachetextconv true

If you have the XML plugin installed:

hgit config diff.xml.textconv 'prettier --no-editorconfig --parser xml --xml-whitespace-sensitivity ignore'
hgit config diff.xml.cachetextconv true

Binary files

Any file that is untracked and detected to be binary will not be added. Use hgit add to add a binary file manually.

Other details

Default .gitignore and .gitattributes files are installed on initialisation. They are never modified by this tool. Please customise as necessary.