A simple dotfile manager, no magic, just yolk.
The easiest way to install yolk is with Homebrew:
brew install neonnoon/formula/yolk
But of course, you can also clone this repo or download the yolk script and put it somewhere in your path.
Clone a repo and initialise yolk:
yolk init <YOUR_DOTFILE_REMOTE_REPO>
yolk does not do any changes to your local files yet, but shows you missing or changed files:
$ yolk status
CHANGED .changed-file
MISSING .missing-file
You can now edit as much as you want and yolk save or yolk restore your files, to save and restore, exactly.
If you want to start tracking your changes with yolk, just do so:
yolk track .new-file
You can, of course, also stop tracking a file. This will keep the file in your home, but will not track it anymore in your git repo.
yolk untrack .a-file
yolk doesn't do any magic, it uses a bare git repository in ~/.dotfiles (or where ever you like) to store and version your configuration files. It basically treats your whole home directory as a git repository -- but only when you want to (by using yolk), and only for what you want to (by using a .gitignore file that ignores everything).
Sometimes you might want to track files that contain sensitive information like a password, but clearly you wouldn't want this information to end up in clear text in your git repo. yolk can use git-crypt to encrypt files (optional). Run yolk crypt to prepare your repo and yolk track -e <FILE> to track files without exposing sensitive information.
If you have added something to your repo that you didn't want to, let's say a file containing sensitive information, yolk untrack is not enough as it will keep the file's history. You will have to completely delete the history with:
yolk forget .file-that-should-not-be-in-your-repo
Not enough? You can always use yolk git to perform any git command you like.