taivu / tvdotfiles

my dotfiles

TV Dot Files

Source: The best way to store your dotfiles: A bare Git repository Source: A simpler way to manage your dotfiles

Setup new machine

Before installation:

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

Clone dotfiles into a bare repo in a dot folder in $HOME:

git clone --bare https://github.com/taivu/tvdotfiles.git $HOME/.tvdotfiles

Define the alias in the current shell scope:

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

Checkout actual content from bare repo to $HOME:

dotfiles checkout

The Step above might fail with a message like:

error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by checkout:
    .bashrc
    .gitignore
Please move or remove them before you can switch branches.
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:

mkdir -p .config-backup && \
dotfiles checkout 2>&1 | egrep "\s+\." | awk {'print $1'} | \
xargs -I{} mv {} .config-backup/{}

Re-run the checkout if you had problems:

dotfiles checkout

Set the flat showUntrackedFiles to no on this specific (local) repo:

dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

You're done, from now on you can type dotfiles commands to add and update your dotfiles:

dotfiles status
dotfiles add .vimrc
dotfiles commit -m "Add vimrc"
dotfiles add .bashrc
dotfiles commit -m "Add bashrc"
dotfiles push

Branch	Description	Notes
machines/osx	mac	osx 10.14.4