`dotfiles`

This repo contains some of my config files to make them easily accessible across platforms. This setup is inspired by this blog post by Gabrielle Young.

Use this setup

If you want to use this setup, firstly clone this repo:

git clone https://github.com/pat-alt/dotfiles.git $HOME/dotfiles

Note I work with ohmyzsh and ohmybash. The .zshrc and .bashrc files in this repo therefore expect the following folders to exist, respectively: $HOME/.oh-my-zsh and $HOME/.oh-my-bash.

Add the following alias:

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

Avoid showing untracked files:

config config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

Finally, checkout the actual content:

config checkout

Note You may also have to run config restore . which will overwrite existing files (caution!).

Commiting Changes

There are files and folders in your $HOME directory that you do not want to track. To not show these upon config status, we used a local config command above. To avoid accidentally adding them, do not use the config add . command and run config add -u . instead.

Local Setup

In some cases, you may want to use local configurations that only apply to the local system and should not be shared across platforms. To specify such configurations, use the $HOME/local.sh file. If this file does not exist, it will automatically be created the first time .zshrc or .bashrc are sourced. The file is not (and should not be) tracked by git. To quickly add aliases to the local config file proceed as follows:

echo "alias codedir='cd ~/code'" >> $LOCAL_SETUP