Victor's dotfiles
Victor Talamantes' bare git repo with personal configuration files.
What are dotfiles? Configuration files with a dot prefix (.) used to personalize your Linux or other Unix-based systems.
Who am I?
I am Victor Talamantes, CEO of Binmatter and founder of Indies Mexico. I'm a programmer and I've worked on hundreds of software projects. I fell in love recently with everything FOSS related and this is my first public repo.
You can find more about my work here:
| URL | Description |
|---|---|
| https://www.binmatter.com | Apps and videogames company |
| https://www.indies.mx | Mexican videogames initiative |
| https://www.victortalamantes.com | Personal blog (spanish) |
Usage
If you are interested in any of my config files, feel free to take a look at them.
The following is the way you can configure a bare repo as mine and/or clone this files to your system.
Create a bare repository
git init --bare $HOME/.dotfilesgit
alias dotfiles='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfilesgit/ --work-tree=$HOME'
Optionally, we can add our new alias to zsh config file so we don't have to run the command above everytime a shell session is started.
echo "alias dotfiles='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfilesgit/ --work-tree=$HOME'" >> $HOME/.zshrc
Using our new alias to complete the configuration by running git commands...
dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no'
For adding files to our repo, eg .vimrc file:
dotfiles add .vimrc
Now we can just add our commit, set the remote and push.
dotfiles commit -m "add .vimrc"
...
Installing
Avoid recursive issues by adding .dotfilesgit to global git ignore.
echo ".dotfilesgit" >> .gitignore
Clone this repo using https or ssh
git clone --bare https://github.com/talamantesvictor/dotfiles.git $HOME/.dotfilesgit
Create an alias to run git commands for this repo
alias dotfiles='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfilesgit/ --work-tree=$HOME
No tracking
dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no
Git checkout
dotfiles checkout
Acknowledgment
Special thanks to Derek Taylor from DistroTube for his great content.
Donations
I take pride in being able to help people with the knowledge I have gained over the years. I would gladly appreciate a coffee (or beer) from you.
License
The files and scripts in this repository are licensed under the MIT License.