Dotfiles

These are my personal dotfiles, built over the many years I've been using UNIX or UNIX-like machines.

Install

This guide walks you through how to set up my dotfiles on a clean $HOME directory.

Clone the repository.

git clone --bare https://github.com/brainplot/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles.git

Since we did a bare clone, let's populate the $HOME directory with the repository contents!

git --git-dir ~/.dotfiles.git --work-tree ~ reset --hard

Run the bootstrap-dotfiles script to finish setting everything up.

~/.local/bin/bootstrap-dotfiles

You can avoid typing out the full path to the script if ~/.local/bin is already in your $PATH.

Restart your terminal/shell and you should be ready to go!

After the installation is finalized, if you wish, you can hide the README.md file from the filesystem with the following command.

dot update-index --assume-unchanged -- ~/README.md ~/LICENSE && rm -f -- ~/README.md ~/LICENSE

You unhide them with the following command.

dot restore -- ~/README.md ~/LICENSE