dotmanager

Lightweight dotfiles manager for bash-based Linux servers (works on macOS too). Provides:

• Git aliases and quality-of-life shell shortcuts
• Managed SSH config includes
• Consistent ~/data path via symlink or empty dir

Install

1. Clone this repo on each machine

git clone <your-fork-or-origin> ~/dotmanager && cd ~/dotmanager

2. Run the installer

bash install.sh

This will:

• Symlink git/.gitconfig to ~/.gitconfig
• Ensure ~/.bashrc sources bash/aliases.sh
• Ensure ~/.ssh/config includes ~/.ssh/config.d/*.conf and symlink ssh/config.d/dotmanager.conf
• Create ~/data as a symlink if DOTMANAGER_DATASET_TARGET is set, otherwise an empty directory

Customize

• Edit Git aliases and settings in git/.gitconfig
• Edit shell shortcuts in bash/aliases.sh
• Add SSH hosts in ssh/config.d/dotmanager.conf (or create more files under ssh/config.d/)

Dataset linking

Optionally set a machine-specific dataset target. Create a file .dotmanager.local at the repo root:

DOTMANAGER_DATASET_TARGET=/mnt/datasets

Then re-run the installer. If not set, the installer ensures ~/data exists as an empty directory so relative paths remain stable.

Uninstall (manual)

• Remove the dotmanager block from ~/.bashrc
• Remove ~/.ssh/config.d/dotmanager.conf and the include line from ~/.ssh/config if desired
• Remove or repoint ~/data