what the heck is this?

an script to automate backing up files with git

how to use

• get the git-in-there

   git clone https://github.com/AliGhaffarian/get-in-there
  

• create a github repository for the backups

• do at least one push to the repository (otherwise the script may not perform as intended)

• add a configuration file

• run the script

  python3 git-in-there.py
  pip install -r requirements.txt
  

configuration

git-in-there reads the TARGETS_FILE file to see what files are tracked and to which repository it needs to push them
the configurations must be provided in yaml
the default name is targets.yaml

limitations

currently special path symbols like ~ are not supported

config fields

targets(optional)

a list of relative paths for directory or file which is inside of the corresponding root

no_target(optional)

if is present the targets will be ignored and entire root directory will be backed up without prompting the user

either targets or no_target field must be provided

todo:check for the target being inside root by checking if it's path starts with root if is not provided the user will be warned and prompted to back up the entire root directory, the prompt can be suppresed with no_target

root

an absolute path in which targets reside
must be absolute path

repo

the repo to which the files will be pushed

name(optional)

used to identify the individual backup configurations when telling the script the certain ones to use by using --repos_to_backup argument

config example:

-
    name: "vim_conf"
    repo: "https://github.com/AliGhaffarian/vim_conf"
    targets:
      - ".vim"
      - ".vimrc"
      - ".viminfo"
      - ".config/coc"
    root: "/home/user"
- 
    repo: "https://github.com/AliGhaffarian/mylinux"
    targets:
      - "Documents/people"
      - "Documents/archive"
      - "Documents/vim_cheat_sheet.png"
      - "Documents/startup"
    root: "/home/user"
-
    repo: "https://github.com/AliGhaffarian/books"
    root: "/home/user/Documents/books"
    no-target: true

TODO

• A .ignore file that tells the script to ignore the directory
• Optimize grouping files for upload