My Dotfiles

this repository contains my dotfiles configurations. Created based on this article. After installed just use config as git and update/add, commit and push any file to track on your repo.

Installation

• Add the following alias to your .bashrc or .zshrc command first:

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

• Create a gitignore to avoid recursive problems:

echo ".dotfiles" >> .gitignore

• Clone de project as bare:

git clone --bare <git-repo-url> $HOME/.dotfiles

• Create the alias to use as "config" in your .bashrc or .zshrc:

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

• Execute the checkout to bring the files:

config checkout

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Errors on Checkout

An error can show up when some duplicated files exist like .zshrc, the following steps make a backup for you review after if something need to be updated, or just move or delete the files.

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

After that just execute the checkout again

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• After the checkout works set this flag to hide untracked files:

config config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

• Init private submodules

config submodule init
config submodule update