dotfiles

Personal dotfiles repository

Install on a new system

See Acknowledgements for tutorial source.

• Prior to the installation, create alias for config
  • alias config="GIT_WORK_TREE=~ GIT_DIR=~/.cfg"
• Add .cfg to .gitignore
  • echo ".cfg" >> .gitignore
• Clone dotfiles into a bare repository
  • git clone --bare <git-repo-url> $HOME/.cfg
• Define the alias in the current shell scope
  • alias config="GIT_WORK_TREE=~ GIT_DIR=~/.cfg"
• Checkout content from bare repository to $HOME
  • config git checkout
• Step above might fail with a message like:

  • error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by checkout:
        .bashrc
        .gitignore
    Please move or remove them before you can switch branches.
    Aborting
    

• Delete .bashrc and .gitignore
  • rm ~/.bashrc ~/.gitignore
• Re-run checkout
  • config git checkout
• Set the flag showUntrackedFiles to no on this specific (local) repo
  • config git config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

Acknowledgements

I followed DistroTube's process for setting up a git bare repository as shown in Git Bare Repository - A Better Way To Manage Dotfiles. He references The best way to store your dotfiles: A bare Git repository by Nicola Paolucci.