Dotfiles the easy way

Why the hell everyone come in with tons of useless kludgy solutions for such simple task? Just USE Git!

Usage

is very simple.

% git clone --bare https://github.com/Kagami/dotfiles.git ~/code/dotfiles.git
% alias gdot='git --git-dir=$HOME/code/dotfiles.git --work-tree=$HOME'
# DON'T FORGET TO BACKUP YOUR CURRENT DOTFILES!!!
% gdot reset --hard
% gdot submodule init
% gdot submodule update

That's it. Use gdot as git for future manipulations with dotfiles and Git will do it just perfectly.

Note that .gitignore contains * so you will need to use gdot add -f for adding new files. It guarantee that you won't accidentally add private data to the repo.

Troubleshooting

If you got something like fatal: working tree '/home/user' already exists on gdot submodule update command you should update your Git version. They've fixed it.