Dotfiles

📖 Usage

1. Clone repo

git clone --bare https://github.com/Javiery3889/dotfiles.git $HOME/.dotfiles

2. Set alias in shell rc file, e.g. .bashrc or .zshrc

alias dotfiles='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME'

3. Checkout actual contents from the bare repo

dotfiles checkout

This command may return an error due to existing configuration files, you can either choose to backup or remove these files.

To backup configuration files, you can use the following command to do (credits to this post at atlassian):

mkdir -p .config-backup && \
config checkout 2>&1 | egrep "\s+\." | awk {'print $1'} | \
xargs -I{} mv {} .config-backup/{}

4. Ignore untracked files in the local repo

dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no