dotfiles

My dotfiles

Intro

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.

Prereqs

• git

Bare repo

alias dotty='GIT_WORK_TREE=~ GIT_DIR=~/.dotfiles'
alias dotfiles='git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles --work-tree=$HOME'
git clone --bare git@github.com: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/{}
fi

Edit

IDE=${VISUAL:-${EDITOR:-vim}}
dotty $IDE ~

Notes

Certain 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.

Resources

• Managing dotfiles with a bare git repo
• Managing dotfiles with GNU Stow
• Using GNU Stow to Manage Symbolic Links for Your Dotfiles