My dotfiles
This repo is for storing my public config files, canonically called "dotfiles". Having dotfiles in a repo makes setup on a new machine just a simple git clone away. Some of the techniques and code are based on concepts from this article, this article on bare repos, and the zillions of other dotfile repos on GitHub.
- git
alias dotty='GIT_WORK_TREE=~ GIT_DIR=~/.dotfiles'
alias dotfiles='git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles --work-tree=$HOME'
git clone --bare [email protected]:mattmc3/dotfiles $HOME/.dotfiles
dotfiles checkout
if [[ $? == 0 ]]; then
echo "Checked out dotfiles.";
else
echo "Backing up pre-existing dot files.";
dotfiles checkout 2>&1 | egrep "\s+\." | awk {'print $1'} | xargs -I{} mv {} .dotfiles.bak/{}
fiIDE=${VISUAL:-${EDITOR:-vim}}
dotty $IDE ~Run this to make .local always track the main branch.
cd .local
git checkout main
git pull origin main # Ensure it's up to date
cd ..
git config -f .gitmodules submodule..local.branch mainAdding these configs helps with push/pull on the .local submodule.
git config push.recurseSubmodules on-demand
git config submodule.recurse trueCertain legacy apps don't properly use .config, so anything that doesn't has a simple wrapper in $HOME that then sources the real files from ~/.config.