Initial config came from Nicola Polucci (https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2016/02/best-way-to-store-dotfiles-git-bare-repo/)
git init --bare $HOME/.cfg alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME' config config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no echo "alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME'" >> $HOME/.bashrc
Prior to the installation make sure you have committed the alias to your .bashrc or .zsh:
1 alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME' And that your source repository ignores the folder where you'll clone it, so that you don't create weird recursion problems:
1 echo ".cfg" >> .gitignore Now clone your dotfiles into a bare repository in a "dot" folder of your $HOME:
1 git clone --bare $HOME/.cfg Define the alias in the current shell scope:
1 alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME' Checkout the actual content from the bare repository to your $HOME:
1 config checkout The step above might fail with a message like:
1 error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by checkout: 2 .bashrc 3 .gitignore 4 Please move or remove them before you can switch branches. 5 Aborting This is because your $HOME folder might already have some stock configuration files which would be overwritten by Git. The solution is simple: back up the files if you care about them, remove them if you don't care. I provide you with a possible rough shortcut to move all the offending files automatically to a backup folder:
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mkdir -p .config-backup &&
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config checkout 2>&1 | egrep "\s+." | awk {'print $1'} |
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xargs -I{} mv {} .config-backup/{}
Re-run the check out if you had problems:
1 config checkout Set the flag showUntrackedFiles to no on this specific (local) repository:
1 config config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no You're done, from now on you can now type config commands to add and update your dotfiles:
1 config status 2 config add .vimrc 3 config commit -m "Add vimrc" 4 config add .bashrc 5 config commit -m "Add bashrc" 6 config push