I'm moving to GNU Stow instead of using git bare repository during 11/2023.
Collection of macOS/Linux configuration files, including Neovim (Nvim).
IMPORTANT! Neovim configuration requires version 0.5+
- Choose a folder name for your dotfiles and store the name to a variable. Store also the URL of the dotfiles repository
DOTFILES_DIR=".dotfiles"
REPO_URL="[email protected]:PasiBergman/dotfiles.git"
MY_SHELL_RC_FILE=".zshrc"- Make sure, that there is an
dotalias. Note! Change the git-dir value based on the directory that you'll later choose to clone the dotfiles repository to.
alias dot='git --git-dir=$HOME/$DOTFILES_DIR/ --work-tree=$HOME'- Add dotfiles directory to
.gitignorefile to avoid recursion problems.
cd $HOME && echo "$DOTFILES_DIR" >> .gitignore- Clone dotfiles to a bare (i.e. empty) repository in your
$HOME/$DOTFILES_DIRpath.
git clone --bare $REPO_URL $HOME/$DOTFILES_DIR- Checkout the repository content to $HOME directory. Note! You may get an error about
untracked working tree, it means that the chekcout would overwrite existing files, which are listed in the error message. Remove or move the existing files to safe location and repeat the repository checkout.
cd $HOME
dot checkout- Use flag
showUntrackedFileswith valuenoto disable listing untracked files.
dot config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no- Done. Use command
dot(instead ofgit) to add, commit, push etc. dotfiles.
DOTFILES_DIR=".dotfiles"
MY_SHELL_RC_FILE=".zshrc"
REPO_URL="[email protected]:PasiBergman/dotfiles.git"
cd $HOME
git init --bare $HOME/$DOTFILES_DIR
alias dot='git --git-dir=$HOME/$DOTFILES_DIR/ --work-tree=$HOME'
dot config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no
echo "alias dot='git --git-dir=$HOME/$DOTFILES_DIR/ --work-tree=$HOME'" >> $HOME/$MY_SHELL_RC_FILEExample:
REPO_URL="[email protected]:PasiBergman/dotfiles.git"
cd $HOME
dot status
dot add .config/nvim/init.vim
dot commit -m "Add nvim configuration"
dot add .zshrc
dot commit -m "Add zshrc"
dot pull $REPO_URL
dot push $REPO_URL