/.dotfiles

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.dotfiles

This was tested on bash
how to use

To initialise you local copy of the repo, use:

alias dotf='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME'  
git init --bare $HOME/.dotfiles  
dotf config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no  
dotf remote add origin https://github.com/Soulthym/.dotfiles.git  
dotf pull origin x200t  
dotf branch x200t  
dotf branch --set-upstream-to=origin/x200t x200t

Put this in your shell's rc, for example in ~/.bashrc I have:

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

Now you can use d or dotf as your dotfile manager and it works exactly like a git repo! (without untracked files for clarity)

making your own

Init your repo with:

git init --bare $HOME/.dotfiles
alias dotf='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME'
dotf config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

To make the alias permanent, add the alias line to your shell's rc.

usage:

    $YOURALIAS add <whatever file name>
    $YOURALIAS commit -m <whatever message commit>
    $YOURALIAS push

For example in my case, to git add ~/.config/vim/vimrc, I do:
d add ~/.config/vim/vimrc