I lost my castle

[xr09]

Maybe I'm missing some obvious issue here but let me just tell my story:

I created a new castle:
homeshick generate vim
I tracked my vim folder
homeshick track vim .vim/
I made a mess, wanted to start over like before homeshick, my first instint was:
rm -rfv ~/.homesick/repos/vim
Great... now all I got are null symlinks in ~/.vim folder.

Totally my bad I know, but maybe using hardlinks instead of symlinks, or a new "untrack" command could highlight the fact that the process of "untracking" unpushed castles is dangerous and should be done with extreme care.

Any thoughts on this?

[andsens]

Any thoughts on this?

Yes, and this might sound a bit harsh... read the manual.

homeshick track moves your files into the castle and creates symlinks in their place. An untrack command will eventually be implemented, but it wont remove any files, it'll just move them back to their original position.

homeshick is a tool coded in the spirit of how most other unix tools work. rm doesn't move things to the trash - it deletes them - and mv doesn't prompt you before it overwrites destination files. It's just the way the cookie crumbles :-)

[xr09]

Looking forward to that untrack command, thank you very much for this project. 👍

[mrmachine]

What about a hard link option? Would that interfere with homesick's ability to recognise files that are not linked? In general, I think I'd prefer hard links because:

a) some and backup tools tools don't follow symlinks, they back them up.
b) accidentally tracking a symlink is annoying