Make home directory user-definable

This paves the way for unit tests to perform operations completely
within a sandboxed environment.

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/dotfiles/cli.py b/dotfiles/cli.py
index 2725c06..e9cf19a 100644
--- a/dotfiles/cli.py
+++ b/dotfiles/cli.py
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ def parse_args():
     parser.add_option("-C", "--config", type="string", dest="config",
             help="set configuration file location (default is ~/.dotfilesrc)")
 
+    parser.add_option("-H", "--home", type="string", dest="home",
+            help="set home directory location (default is ~/)")
+
     action_group = OptionGroup(parser, "Actions")
 
     action_group.add_option("-a", "--add", action="store_const", dest="action",
diff --git a/dotfiles/core.py b/dotfiles/core.py
index 5bc472e..22cacb8 100644
--- a/dotfiles/core.py
+++ b/dotfiles/core.py
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ __license__ = "GPL"
 
 class Dotfile(object):
 
-    def __init__(self, name, target):
+    def __init__(self, name, target, home):
         if name.startswith('/'):
             self.name = name
         else:
-            self.name = os.path.expanduser('~/.%s' % name.strip('.'))
+            self.name = os.path.expanduser(home + '/.%s' % name.strip('.'))
         self.basename = os.path.basename(self.name)
         self.target = target.rstrip('/')
         self.status = ''