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update checker #18

Open justone opened 11 years ago

justone commented 11 years ago

A command dfm checkupdate that you can put in your .bash_profile (or zsh equiv) that will only check for updates once a day and will have one of the following outputs:

Nothing - if there are no updates
A list of updates (log summary) and "you have updates, run dfm umi"

Alternatively, it could just merge the changes in if configured.

It should:

complain if there are local changes and there are changes to pull in
refuse to merge changes in if there are local changes

justone commented 11 years ago

We don't want it to run if you are using mass SSH or ansible, so it shouldn't run if there's no terminal attached.

justone commented 11 years ago

For configuration, how about a ".dfmrc" that goes in the root of the dotfiles directory (and is not installed), with options to control this:

update frequency
behavior if there are changes to merge

justone commented 11 years ago

Or, call the file .dfmconfig and use git config internally to manage it. No need for a new file format and we already know git will be there.