A bare repository for my *nix dotfiles (i.e., config files)
First, set up the shell, to avoid the config from this repository being overwritten (which will happen if you install afterwards).
I use zsh, with the oh-my-zsh package manager. Install both of these. I followed this article.
Powerlevel10k is the zsh theme of choice here. This needs to be installed into your oh-my-zsh custom directory (instructions).
As this is a bare repository, the set up is slightly different to a simple clone. Clone with:
git clone --bare git@github.com:murchu27/dotfiles.git $HOME/.dotfiles.git
Then, to get the actual files in the repo, run the below:
Note, this will fail if you already have any of the files included in this repo in your home directory. Rename those files, and then run the command. You can then compare my files to yours (e.g.,
diff .profile .profile.bak), to see what you might want to keep from your files.
git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles.git/ --work-tree=$HOME checkout
The extra arguments are needed because a bare repository does not contain a working tree, only the .git files.
The working tree is stored somewhere else, in this case, the home directory.
To avoid the pain of typing this out everytime, we could add an alias. Note that the .bash_aliases included in this repo already has this alias defined.
alias dotfiles='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles.git/ --work-tree=$HOME'
Now we can use regular git commands like:
dotfiles status
dotfiles commit -a -m "My commit 3"
dotfiles push
Notice that dotfiles status will list all files in your home directory as untracked. You can hide these files from this output without adding them to a .gitignore by running the following:
dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no