My dotfiles

I am using the home folder as a git repository, to sync config files between machines, but without the need of creating symlinks.

To avoid problems when operating with git directories inside home (and to avoid the git status line on zsh every on when I use the terminal), the GIT_DIR is stored in a separate dir

Installation in a new machine:

git clone --bare --recursive git@github.com:kurka/dotfiles.git $HOME/.dotfiles
alias dotconfig='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME' #alias also included in .zshrc
dotconfig checkout # delete or backup files in case of conflict and run checkout again
dotconfig submodule update --init --recursive
dotconfig config status.showUntrackedFiles no

Creating repository with config files of existing machine:

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

Where my ~/.dotfiles directory is a git bare repository. Then any file within the home folder can be versioned with normal commands like:

Any file can then be added as:

dotconfig status
dotconfig add .vimrc
dotconfig commit -m "Add vimrc"
dotconfig add .zshrc
dotconfig commit -m "Add zsh config"
dotconfig push

References:

https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2016/02/best-way-to-store-dotfiles-git-bare-repo/ http://chneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2013/01/a-grab-bag-of-git-tricks.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11070797 https://github.com/jaagr/dots