Should we deprecate the sync command?

[volllly]

The sync command basically is a wrapper around git that stages all changes and then commits does a pull and then and pushes the changes.

Currently there are some cases where it fails and making it stable would require a lot of work.
I don't actually use it most of the time and just do the git actions manually (or sometimes with vscode).

Related #329 (comment)

[t-mart]

I'm the linked comment, but my only argument to keep sync would be that it allows users to only interact with rotz.

In other words, if you consider rotz an "interface", and git a dependency of that interface, then it kind of sucks to have rotz "leak" git to users. Abstraction is a great thing. You only really want to be working with one interface. Therefore, keeping sync might be a good thing.

But, git is hairy: it's so configurable and supports many workflows. It's hard to wrangle and generalize. Ultimately, I have trouble imagining any software supporting all that: managing working tree, staged files, commits, branches, remotes, remote branches, pushes, etc. This would be a large developer burden.

Additionally, and this might just be me speaking, I feel more comfortable with git than another software interacting with it on my behalf.

For this reasons, I'd say: get rid of sync and document that repo management should be done by the user with git.

If we're considering getting rid of sync, you could argue that we look the same at clone: another subcommand that wraps git functions. However, I like clone because:

• it sets up the ~/.dotfiles path correctly
• cloning is seems much simpler than what sync would do

So, again, I'd say that sync is something that rotz developers and users do not want (at this time?).

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