Prerequisites

Install stow and neovim

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install stow neovim -y

Remove dotfiles from home directory

rm -rf .aliases .bashrc .config .profile .vim .vimrc autoload

Clone into new machine

Clone including submodules

git clone --recursive git@github.com:naing2victor/dotfiles.git

In case you forget to recursively clone, load submodules to cloned repository

git submodule update --init --recursive

git submodule init
git pull --recurse-submodules

Check only without pulling into local directory

git submodule init
git fetch --recurse-submodule

Update submodules from remote with new commits

git submodule update --remote --recursive

git submodule foreach git pull origin master

GNU Stow for soft links

stow bash/ config/ vim/

Add submodules for vim plugins

Install vim pathogen

mkdir -p ~/dotfiles/vim/.vim/autoload  ~/dotfiles/vim/.vim/bundle && \
curl -LSso ~/dotfiles/vim/.vim/autoload/pathogen.vim https://tpo.pe/pathogen.vim

Add vim plugins

git submodule add git@github.com:morhetz/gruvbox.git ~/dotfiles/vim/.vim/bundle/gruvbox
git submodule add git@github.com:dracula/vim.git ~/dotfiles/vim/.vim/bundle/dracula
git submodule add git@github.com:vim-airline/vim-airline-themes.git ~/dotfiles/vim/.vim/bundle/vim-airline-themes
git submodule add git@github.com:vim-airline/vim-airline.git ~/dotfiles/vim/.vim/bundle/vim-airline
git submodule add git@github.com:preservim/nerdtree.git ~/dotfiles/vim/.vim/bundle/nerdtree
git submodule add git@github.com:ctrlpvim/ctrlp.vim.git ~/dotfiles/vim/.vim/bundle/ctrlp
git submodule add git@github.com:junegunn/fzf.git ~/dotfiles/vim/.vim/bundle/fzf
git submodule add git@github.com:tpope/vim-fugitive.git ~/dotfiles/vim/.vim/bundle/vim-fugitive
git submodule add git@github.com:easymotion/vim-easymotion.git ~/dotfiles/vim/.vim/bundle/vim-easymotion
git submodule add git@github.com:sheerun/vim-polyglot.git ~/dotfiles/vim/.vim/bundle/vim-polyglot

Working with git submodules for vim

Installing a plugin as a submodule

git submodule add http://github.com/[user]/[plugin] bundle/[plugin-name]
git add .
git commit -m "Update [plugin] [vimrc]"

Update each plugin manually

cd bundles/[plugin]
git pull

Removing a plugin

git submodule deinit -f bundle/[plugin-name]
rm -rf bundle/[plugin-name]
git rm -rf bundle/[plugin-name]

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