Configuration Files (mostly dot files)

Configuration files for my linux systems

Table of Contents

• Setup Your Own
• Cloning

Setup

Original Instructions

mkdir ~/.config && git init --bare $HOME/.config/dotfiles

• where my ~/.config/dotfiles directory is a git bare repository. Then any file within the home folder can be versioned with normal commands like:

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

• so config can be used from any directory to call git commands for this repo

config config status.showUntrackedFiles no

• so the entire home directory is not waiting to be addded. give you manual control over the files

config status

• shoud be empty at this point

Example

config add somefile
config commit -m "Add somefile"
config remote add origin https://github.com/yourusername/yourreponame.git
config push

No extra tooling, no symlinks, files are tracked on a version control system, you can use different branches for different computers, you can replicate you configuration easily on new installation.

Clone

To clone to a different linux computer use:

git clone --separate-git-dir=$HOME/.config/dotfiles https://github.com/jmzagorski/config-linux.git /tmp
cd /tmp/config-linux
mv .git ~/.config/dotfiles
cd
shopt -s dotglob
cp -r /tmp/config-linux/* .
rm -r /tmp/config-linux
config config status.showUntrackedFiles no

config alias is already setup in the .bash_alias file