dotfiles

Setup

DO NOT CLONE THIS REPO NORMALLY

This is designed as a bare repo, the version control (normally .git) will live in $HOME/.dotfiles and control files in $HOME

Instead:

$ cd $HOME

$ git clone --bare git@github.com:chasms/dotfiles.git $HOME/.dotfiles

$ alias dotfiles='`which git` --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME'

$ dotfiles checkout

If the last command fails because 'files would be overwritten', stow a backup of the current files and run it again:

$ mkdir -p .dotfiles-backup

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

$ dotfiles checkout

Finally:

$ dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

$ source .bash_profile

Configuration

Use the dotfiles command in any working directory to access this repo's git commands

$ dotfiles status
$ dotfiles add .vimrc
$ dotfiles commit -m "Add vimrc"
$ dotfiles add .bashrc
$ dotfiles commit -m "Add bashrc"
$ dotfiles push

The .bash_profile should not require any adjustment, and is configured to load in all files in the .shell_scripts directory

• (see the include function in .bash_profile)

Create functions, utilities, and files in the .shell_scripts directory to customize the bash shell

Any files in the .shell_scripts directory that you do not want included in version control should be suffixed with _private

• (e.g. .shell_scripts/.bashrc_private, see .gitignore to see/modify configuration)

Set this Up for Yourself

If you would prefer not to use my dotfile configuration but set up the version control with your own dotfiles

$ git init --bare $HOME/.dotfiles

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

$ dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

• Add the following line to your shell profile (.bash_profile or .bashrc or whatever you use) to make the dotfiles command available in new shells:

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

• I recommend adapting the contents of my .gitignore so that you do not accidentally add the entire contents of your home folder to the repo

• Setup a remote for your repo, and push your commits up

• Now you can use the same instructions as above in Setup, substituting your repo url for mine, to install your new version-controlled dotfiles on your other machines