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SuperCuber / dotter

A dotfile manager and templater written in rust 🦀
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[FEATURE] Add a command to checkout remote repo #168

Closed VPraharsha03 closed 8 months ago

VPraharsha03 commented 8 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Currently the only pre-requisite for dotter to run on a new machine is git, particularly on windows git doesn't come pre-installed, if dotter could implement a command (say fetch) to checkout dotfiles repo on a new windows machine that would simplify the process by just only requiring to install dotter binaries. This might help simplify deployment process by reducing commands to a single command.

Describe the solution you'd like probably something like dotter --fetch https://github.com/username/dotfiles.git, this is similar to what chezmoi implements

Describe alternatives you've considered using git to clone dotfiles or downloading the source code archive (curl) and extracting it using Expand-Archive or tar commands (on Windows 10).

SuperCuber commented 8 months ago

After you clone the repo you will probably want to pull or add/commit stuff anyways... I don't think the convenience of quickly setting up a machine without git is a good enough reason to implement a whole git client.