Easy dotfiles management

Fri, 08 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

git init --bare $HOME/.dotfiles

[–more–] 2. Use working directory of git as $HOME, and git dir as .dotfiles

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

config config status.showUntrackedFiles no

config status
config add .config/mpv
config commit -m "Added mpv config"

config remote add origin <link>
config push origin master

For using dotfiles on other device

git clone --separate-git-dir=~/.myconf <link-to-repo> ~

Or clone into separate tmp dir, otherwise it will fail if your home directory isn’t empty. Then copy your configs and remove tmp dir.

git clone --separate-git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles <link-to-repo> $HOME/dotfiles-tmp
cp ~/dotfiles-tmp/.vimrc ~
rm -r ~/myconf-tmp/

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

Done! easy peezy lemon squeezy :)

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