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Setting up dotfiles on a new machine

Running the following bash script will unpack all files in this repository to the correct place, and store git files within ~/.dotfiles

git clone --bare https://github.com/drdro123/.dotfiles $HOME/.dotfiles
function config {
   /usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME $@
}
mkdir -p .config-backup
config checkout
if [ $? = 0 ]; then
    echo "Checked out config.";
else
    echo "Backing up pre-existing dot files.";
    config checkout 2>&1 | egrep "\s+\." | awk {'print $1'} | xargs -I{} mv {} .config-backup/{}
fi;
config checkout
config config status.showUntrackedFiles no

Making changes to dotfiles

The alias config permits git interaction with this repo from outside its directory. For example, config status will run git status for this specific repo. Files can be added using config add <filename>. Commits and pushes work similarly.

Reference

This is based on https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles