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Dotfiles Setup

I currently keep my dotfiles in a GitHub repo (here). I use the bare git repo trick that made the rounds a while ago. The reference I used to set everything up was this blog post. The following is a reproduction of that blog post for the sake of longevity.

Pulling to a new machine

This is more common. Run

git clone --separate-git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles https://github.com/quid256/dotfiles2.git tmpdotfiles
rsync --recursive --verbose --exclude '.git' tmpdotfiles/ $HOME/
rm -r tmpdotfiles

This will clone the dotfiles into a tmp directory, synchronize them with local copies that may exist, and delete the temporary copies.

To set up the dotfiles command, add

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

to ~/.zshrc. Source it, and then run

dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

Then, you can use the dotfiles command just as you would git.

Creating a new dotfiles repo

This is very initial. Only need to be done when a new environment like this is created. Note for future self -- this is likely not necessary for you.

To create the git repo, execute

mkdir $HOME/.dotfiles
git init --bare $HOME/.dotfiles

Then, setup the dotfiles command as specified above, and run

dotfiles remote add origin [email protected]:[username]/[repo].git

to add the appropriate remote