Bare Repo

These dotfiles use the bare repo method described in this Atlassian blog post. This has the advantage of not requiring symlinks for all the files, everything is right where they belong. Git commands are accessed through an function (dots in my case) that specifies a different git dir.

Installation:

First, make a bare clone of this repo:

$ git clone --bare git@github.com:philtr/dotfiles.git $HOME/.dotfiles.git

Then, make a temporary alias to be able to checkout these dotfiles:

$ alias dots='git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles.git --work-tree=$HOME'
$ dots checkout

If dots checkout fails due to existing files, backup and remove the conflicting files and run the dots checkout again.

Finally, set the local git config to hide untracked files:

$ dots config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

Post-installation:

• Set iTerm configuration to load config
  • Open iTerm preferences
  • Check "Load preferences from a user-defined folder or URL"
  • Put in $HOME/.config/iterm2 (replacing $HOME with the full path of the home folder, e.g. /Users/philtr)

Using

Keeping things committed is easy. Simply use the dots command from the home directory to add, commit, and pull changes.