Oh My Dotfiles.

No extra tooling, no symlinks, files are tracked on a version control system, you can use different branches for different computers, you can replicate you configuration easily on new installation.

Setting up the config directory

git init --bare $HOME/.cfg
alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.myconf/ --work-tree=$HOME'
config config status.showUntrackedFiles no

--bare Create a bare repository. If GIT_DIR environment is not set, it is set to the current working directory.

config remote add origin git@github.com:ordepdev/dotfiles.git 
config push -u origin master

Setting up the repository on another machine

alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME'
git clone --bare git@github.com:ordepdev/dotfiles.git $HOME/.cfg

Commiting config changes

config status
config add .vimrc
config commit -m "Add vimrc"
config push origin master

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