Merge conditionally deployed files

[cmseeling]

Hey, I recently found this utility and I really like it.

I was wondering if it would be possible to somehow merge configuration files to help cut down on duplicating files and manually syncing them.

For example, in my .gitconfig file I use the git-credential-libsecret store to save my passkey on Linux, but I don't need that on my Mac because it's stored in the Apple Keychain.

So what I would like to see is something like this file structure:

dotfiles
|--Configs
   |--git
   |  |--.gitconfig
   |--git_linux
   |  |--.gitconfig
   |--git_macos
      |--.gitconfig

In Configs/git/.gitconfig I would have something like

[user]
name = username
email = email
...
# tuckr_credential

Configs/git_macos/.gitignore would be empty since I don't need that configuration option on Mac. In Configs/git_linux/.gitconfig I would have:

[credential]
helper = 'path/to/git-credential-libsecret'

Thanks!

[RaphGL]

Hello, this is already an implemented feature. It's documented here but I forgot to write about it on the wiki page.

What is not implemented yet is doing a fallback, so if you have the same file on git and git_linux it will just symlink one of them and mark the others as conflict. I think doing the fallback thing makes sense tbh. I haven't thought of this use case before. I think it's worth investing and attempting to implement.

[cmseeling]

Thanks for replying. I did look at the conditional deployment and I'm using it for some things. The fallback is exactly what I'm looking for so I can maintain one file for the majority of the configuration that is shared between machines and then have a few very small other files for OS specific values.

[RaphGL]

I see, makes sense. Only this last year people have started to use my tool, even though I've been using it myself for 3 years. So there's these small holes in how tuckr behaves and how people expect it to behave, since I was only working on whatever affected my own use cases.

I'll definitely take a look at how I can add this. I think adding this and coupling it with this suggestion can massively reduce the amount of setup and files u have to keep track of.