Dotfiles

Host config files for UNIX machines. The versioning system uses a git bare repository system as recommended in
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branch	description
master or ubuntu	For ubuntu 20.04
manjaro	For Arch based distro
pi	For raspberry pi outdated
xless	For server config outdated

Setup new machine

Either use the installation script or a manual install as explained in the article. Note that the manual installation will conflict with existing dotfiles in your working space. The install.sh script will back up conflicting files : .zshrc > .zshrc.bak

Recommended requirements: git curl zsh zsh-completions vim

Manual install

# clone the repo
git clone --bare https://github.com/mazzma12/dotfiles.git $HOME/.cfg
# add to zshrc or bashrc
alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME'
# add to gitignore
echo ".cfg" >> .gitignore
config checkout .
config config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

Auto Install

Auto install script from a specific branch. This will backup original config files if conflicts (suffix to .bak) and checkout the bare repository. It comes along with uninstall.sh to restore all config and delete the local bare repository.

export DOTFILES_BRANCH="master" # Default branch to clone from
export DOTFILES_HOME="$HOME/.cfg" # Default install directory
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mazzma12/dotfiles/master/install.sh)"

Troubleshooting

# Latest tmux follow: https://gist.github.com/P7h/91e14096374075f5316e
sudo apt-get install tmux-next=2.3~20161117~bzr3621+20-1ubuntu1~ppa0~ubuntu14.04.1	# get this from https://launchpad.net/~pi-rho/+archive/ubuntu/dev

Create the dotfiles repository

As in the article mentioned above:

git init --bare $HOME/.cfg
echo "alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME'" >> $HOME/.zshrc
source /.zshrc
config config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no
# or add this to .zshrc

Then to add stuff, we can do:

config add .zshrc
config commit -m 'Add zsh config'
config remote set-url origin git@github.com:mazzma12/dotfiles.git
config push