dotfiles

Use git (and Sublime Merge) to manage dotfiles without using symlinks. Uses brew to install software and rtx to manage runtimes.

Usage

If you've already got your dotfiles setup you can use the following commands to manage your dotfiles.

Track file

dotfiles add -f .somefile

Untrack file

dotfiles rm --cached .somefile

Update Brewfile

brew bundle dump --force

Setup (from this repo)

If you want to (fork and) clone this repo and use it for your own dotfiles, follow these steps.

Clone repo

DOTFILES_REPO=https://github.com/connorads/dotfiles/
DOTFILES_DIR=$HOME/git/dotfiles
git clone --bare $DOTFILES_REPO $DOTFILES_DIR

Change worktree to home directory

cd $DOTFILES_DIR
git config --unset core.bare
git config core.worktree $HOME

Put dotfiles from git into home directory (⚠️ this will overwrite existing dotfiles in home directory)
```
cd $HOME
git --git-dir=$DOTFILES_DIR/ checkout -f
```

Setup brew and install packages

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"
brew bundle install

You can now reload your shell and open Sublime Merge
```
smerge $DOTFILES_DIR
```

Setup (from scratch)

Follow these steps to recreate the setup for this repo from scratch.

Create repository to store dotfiles

DOTFILES_DIR=$HOME/git/dotfiles
git init --bare $DOTFILES_DIR

Change worktree to home directory

cd $DOTFILES_DIR
git config --unset core.bare
git config core.worktree $HOME

Ignore all files except .gitignore (Sublime merge doesn't support status.showUntrackedFiles=no)
```
cd $HOME
echo "/*" >> .gitignore
echo "!.gitignore" >> .gitignore
```

Add alias to .zshrc

echo "alias dotfiles='git --git-dir=$HOME/git/dotfiles/'" >> $HOME/.zshrc

You can now start tracking files

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