gitman

Manage all your important non-sensitive configurations via git

You ever wanted to persist all your important configurations in a git repo, but were afraid of accidentally committing sensitive information?
Here is your solution: gitman! The idea is that all your files are gitignored by default, but once you are sure you want to commit them, you can explicitly unignore them with gitman with a simple gitman <filename>.

Because I am a lazy b*****d, that's why. 😉
Having a * in the .gitignore file forces you to unignore all subdirectories. You want to unignore ~/foo/bar/baz.txt?
You have to add entries for ~/foo, ~/foo/bar and ~/foo/bar/baz.txt.
That's what gitman does for you.

1. git init in your home directory
2. Copy .gitignore and .gitman into your home directory
3. Add the following lines to your .bashrc file:

   # add gitman
    if [ -f ~/.gitman ]; then
    . ~/.gitman
    fi

4. Run source ~/.bashrc
5. Be lazy and feel safe, because you only commit the files you explicitly whitelisted. 🚀