Comment by ❄ ghost
Re: "Managing dotfiles with nothing but a makefile"
Right, but then you check those files into a git and push. On the next computer, you pull, and voila: rw-r--r--. Make allows arbitrary rules, like `chmod600` and managing secrets, like a cert for your gemini browser.
Apr 18 · 3 weeks ago
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🚀 SavaRocks · Apr 18 at 16:38:
easily fixable with
Yeah but there are all those $^% things and spaces, and somehow eventually I notice that one of the source files doesn't compile which explains why nothing works
❄ ghost [OP] · Apr 18 at 20:23:
If you're writing your own, you don't have to use them. If you're looking at someone else's, running `make -n` (possibly with grep) usually tells you what the intention is.
I will try that. It's always a mystery to me.
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Managing dotfiles with nothing but a makefile — Makefiles make files, and dotfiles are files. I've used a makefile to generate actual dotfiles as hard links for over a year, and it's worked great.
💬 11 comments · Apr 18 · 3 weeks ago · #cli #dotfiles #linux