dacort / dotfiles

My (n)ever-changing dotfiles / bare git style

dotfiles

My (n)ever-changing dotfiles / bare git style

Overview

I've tried a few variations of dotfiles in the past, but I never really liked having to manage my config files with more code.

So in hunting around for solutions (and trying yadm as well) I came across the git bare repo approach.

I quite liked it, so this is my attempt at managing my dotfiles across 1-n machines where currently n=2.

Bootstrapping

• Clone the repo (without auth)

git clone --bare https://github.com/dacort/dotfiles.git .cfg
git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg --work-tree=$HOME checkout -f

• Update your shell and do not show untracked files

source ~/.zshrc
git config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

• Run the macos installation script

./macos

• After creating/adding a new SSH key to GH, switch the origin and push any changes

git remote set-url origin [email protected]:dacort/dotfiles.git

dotfiles's Issues

How to deal with multiple machines

Don't have to deal with this yet, but documenting thoughts on it.

• Different branches and rebase on master?
• machine specific files that get sourced?
  • .zshrc.work