Deprecated: I'm now using NixOS. See my config repo.

dots

Creation

Initialised simply with:

git init --bare $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/dotfiles.git

and these helpers:

alias dots='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/dotfiles.git/ --work-tree=$HOME'
dots config status.showUntrackedFiles no

Usage

Installation

As bare repo

Clone as a bare repo into the preferred .git folder, then restore the git file tree:

git clone --bare git@github.com:TresPaul/dots.git $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/dotfiles.git
git --git-dir=$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/dotfiles.git --work-tree=$HOME reset

To restore all files into filesystem, do reset --hard instead; to restore individual files, use checkout.

As normal repo

Alternatively, a normal repo can be used. If $HOME is empty:

git clone git@github.com:TresPaul/dots.git $HOME

(Specify --separate-git-dir=$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/dotfiles.git for clarity.)

If $HOME is not empty, use a temporary folder for the working tree, then move the needed files out and delete the temporary folder:

git clone --separate-git-dir=$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/dotfiles.git git@github.com:TresPaul/dots.git $HOME/dotfiles.git.tmp
cp ...
rm -rf ~/dotfiles.git.tmp/

(Subsequently use git --git-dir=$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/dotfiles.git --work-tree=$HOME.)

Manual config

• For ZSH to use the XDG config directory, /etc/zsh/zshenv needs to contain

  export ZDOTDIR="$HOME"/.config/zsh