Background

In the move from version 0.4.0 to version 0.5.0 the configuration system has drastically changed from the configparser INI style to YAML. Because of this there needs to be a migration done on any existing configuration files. Currently there is a built in migration that will be removed as part of the version 0.6.0 update. This migration will run automatically the first time you run any command in ahd after updating.

For example here is an old config file:

.ahdconfig

[git-upt]
command = git pull
paths = ~/Desktop/development/*

[remove-pdf]
command = rm *.pdf
paths = ~/Desktop/

Here is the new equivalent file:

ahd.yml

macros:
  git-upt:
    command: git pull
    paths: ~/Desktop/development/*
  remove-pdf:
    command: rm *.pdf
    paths: ~/Desktop/
  add-pdf:
    command: mkdir *.pdf
    paths: ~/Desktop/

Steps

1. Update ahd to the latest version using pip install --upgrade ahd
2. Run any command in ahd. This could be a registered macro, or any top level command such as ahd list
3. You will receive a message letting you know there is an old configuration file detected, and then a new file will be automatically generated off the existing one.
4. You will then be asked if you want to delete the new file, respond with y for yes, or n for no. To be completely safe I would recommend saying no the first time, and running an ahd list to make sure nothing got missed, and then say yes the second time.

You shouldn't need to do this verification, but if you did some incorrect formatting with manual modification of a configuration in the past, something may be missed. After that you are good to go with the new version of ahd.