snototter / dotfiles

dotfiles

My personal dotfiles following the Atlassian bare repo tutorial

Setup

1. Prevent weird recursion problems:

   echo ".dotcfg" >> $HOME/.gitignore

2. Clone this dotfile repository into the .dotcfg folder of your $HOME:

   git clone --bare [e-mail]:snototter/dotfiles.git $HOME/.dotcfg

3. Define the following alias:

   alias dotconfig='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotcfg/ --work-tree=$HOME'

4. TODO dotconfig checkout - might fail (need to automate user query + backup)
5. Set repository properties:

   # Hide untracked files
   dotconfig config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no
   # User details
   dotconfig config --local user.name "snototter"
   dotconfig config --local user.email "[e-mail]"
   # Set upstream branch
   dotconfig push --set-upstream origin main

6. Done, now dotfile changes can be simply tracked:

   dotconfig status
   dotconfig add .bashrc
   dotconfig commit -m "Add bashrc"
   dotconfig push