My Linux Environment

Installing these files on your system

• Add the repository folder to a .gitignore in your home folder to avoid recursion problems

echo '.dotconfig' >> $HOME/.gitignore

• Clone this repository as bare into the .dotconfig folder

git clone --bare https://github.com/Eihen/dotconfig $HOME/.dotconfig

• Define the alias in your current shell scope to make your life easier

alias config="/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotconfig --work-tree=$HOME"

• Set the local repository configuration to don't show untracked files (otherwise every file on your home folder will be showed)

config config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

• Checkout the actual repository content

config checkout

• If one or more configuration files already exists the above command will fail with a message about those files being overwritten. To solve this you need to move the list files to a backup folder or just remove them if you don't care.

Set up your own .config repository

• Init a bare repository on your $HOME folder

git init --bare $HOME/.dotconfig

• Set an alias for the repository to make your life easier (it would be pretty painful writing the full command all the time)

alias config="/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotconfig --work-tree=$HOME"

• Set the local repository configuration to don't show untracked files (otherwise every file on your home folder will be showed)

config config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

• Put the alias we used before in your .bashrc for future use

echo "alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotconfig --work-tree=$HOME'" >> $HOME/.bashrc

How to use it

• You use it just like a git repository, replacing the git with the config alias

Examples

• Display changed tracked files

config status

• Add a new file or stage changes on already tracked files

config add .bashrc

• Commit the changes to the repository

config commit

• Push changes to upstream

config push

Credits

• Nicola Paolucci for this Atlassian Developer Blog Post in which this repository structure and instructions are based.

• Chris Kempson for the awesome base16 theme architecture.

• Kevin Hamer for base16-termite and base16-i3.

• Seth Wright for the base16-google-dark for termite and i3 in the above repositories.