Manage dotfiles

First time setup

Create a bare repository to store our dotfiles.

mkdir $HOME/.dotfiles
git init --bare $HOME/.dotfiles

Create an alias to run git for work with our dotfiles repository. Add this to .bashrc or .zshrc

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

Add a remote a set the status to not show untracked files:

dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no
dotfiles remote add origin git@github.com:mjimeneznet/.dotfiles.git

Working with dofiles

cd $HOME
dotfiles add .tmux.conf
dotfiles commit -m "Add .tmux.conf"
dotfiles push

Setting up a new machine

git clone --separate-git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles https://github.com/mjimeneznet/.dotfiles.git ~
./bootstrap.sh

Workaround if in the new machine there're default config files:

git clone --separate-git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles https://github.com/mjimeneznet/.dotfiles.git tmpdotfiles
rsync --recursive --verbose --exclude '.git' tmpdotfiles/ $HOME/
rm -r tmpdotfiles