File change not being picked up?

[pitosalas]

Here's a scenario:

• i edited my ~.bash_profile
• I verify by looking that the copy /Users/pitosalas/.homesick/repos/dotfiles/home/.bash_profile is the old one
• i do a homeshick check and I get this:

~> homeshick check
     up to date dotfiles
     up to date homeshick
~>

• I do a homeshick refresh and I get:

    ~> homeshick refresh
            fresh dotfiles
            fresh homeshick
    ~>

• I would have expected that it would pick up the changed .bash_profile and brought it into homeshick. Can you help me understand? Thank You.

[andsens]

Is your $HOME/.bash_profile actually a symlink into your dotfiles repo? If not, homeshick has no way of picking up the change. You should run homeshick link to create those symlinks in your home directory (the one you changed will be overwritten though, so move it into your dotfiles manually). The idea is to never actually have files in your $HOME but symlinks, this way when you edit them, the changes will actually be in the corresponding castle.

p.s.: The homeshick check command will actually not work as you expect because of #46.

[pitosalas]

Yes, that was indeed the problem. I wonder whether editing .bash_profile with Sublime Text wiped out the symlink. I didn’t think it would do that… Anyway fixed.

Thank you!

Pito

On January 14, 2014 at 6:30:57 PM, Anders Ingemann (notifications@github.com) wrote:

Is your $HOME/.bash_profile actually a symlink into your dotfiles repo? If not, homeshick has no way of picking up the change. You should run homeshick link to create those symlinks in your home directory (the one you changed will be overwritten though, so move it into your dotfiles manually). The idea is to never actually have files in your $HOME but symlinks, this way when you edit them, the changes will actually be in the corresponding castle.

p.s.: The homeshick check command will actually not work as you expect because of #46.

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