dotfiles

I love me some dotfiles testing. Got this strategy from this cool article.

Setup:

First you need to create a bare repo to track your dotfiles

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

Then create an alias (and add it to your zsh or bash aliases) so you dont have to keep typing all the git arguments everytime

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

Set your repo to not show untracked files (or you will see all the files in you $HOME directory)

git.dot config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

Usage:

You can now use your alias with normal git commands to manage your dotfiles

git.dot status
git.dot commit -am "dotfiles are the best"
git.dot push
git.dot pull

I added some other aliases for the most common actions. NOTE you only have to git.dot add new files, modified or deleted files will be picked up with git.dot commit -am

alias gda='git.dot add -f'
alias gds='git.dot status'
alias gdl='git.dot pull'
alias gdp='git.dot push'
alias gdc='git.dot commit -am'

Setup on New Computer:

Clone your bare repo

git clone --bare https://github.com/nickw8/dotfiles.git $HOME/.dotfiles

Make sure you have the alias set up on the new computer, then checkout the code

git.dot checkout