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Table of Contents

• Setup
• Cloning onto a new Machine
• Initial setup
• Versioning

Welcome to the .dotfiles wiki!
This Repo is currently set up following a tutorial inspired by a Hacker News post .

Setup

This technique simply uses a bare git repository (in this case located in ~/.dotfiles).
A dotfiles alias can then be added to your respective terminalrc (e.g. .bashrc) for ease of use.

Cloning onto a new Machine

1. Clone the repo into a bare repository in your home directory

git clone --bare git@github.com:eneller/.dotfiles.git $HOME/.dotfiles

2. Append the following alias to your terminalrc

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

3. Checkout the content from your repo to your home directory

dotfiles checkout

3. Configure git to hide untracked files for this repo

dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

Initial setup

1. Initialize a bare git repository in your home directory using

git init --bare $HOME/.dotfiles

2. Append the following alias to your terminalrc

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

3. Use git as you would normally to track your dotfiles, only using e.g. dotfiles add instead of git add

Versioning

Use git tag to mark specific commits for later checkout.