Shleppy's Dotfiles

This repo contains my dotfiles if you couldn't tell from the title.

Installation on new system

Create a fork and do the following:

• Add the following alias to your .bashrc or .zshrc

Note: you could rename the alias however you please (e.g. dotfiles)

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

• Add .cfg to your .gitignore

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

• Clone this repo as a bare repo

Note: you might need to change the url if you use http

# if you use ssh ue the following:
git clone --bare git@github.com:shleppy/dotfiles.git $HOME/.cfg
# if you use https use the following:
git clone --bare https://github.com/shleppy/dotfiles.git $HOME/.cfg

• Checkout the content from the bare repo

Note that this might cause conflicts, choose to either remove the conflicting files or back them up

config checkout

• Ignore untracked files when using git on this repo

config config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

Usage

config status
config add .myrc
config commit -m "Add myrc"
config push