Twan's dotfiles

I manage my dotfiles leveraging Git's "worktree" feature. This way I can have the Git repo metadata stored wherever I want and the actual files stored directly in my $HOME.

Inspired from :

• Nicola Paolucci's "The best way to store your dotfiles: A bare Git repository" and his dotfiles
• dvidelabs/config

Prerequisites

• Git
• Curl
• Zsh

Installing

I would strongly advise not to clone my dotfiles, instead, fork this repo and update the install script so it will point to your forked repo. You can then go ahead and change my settings to your liking.

You can change the path where you store the bare repo by setting the DOTFILES environment variable before launching the install script. The default is .dotfiles and it's always relative to $HOME. So if you export DOTFILES=.my-awesome-repo, the bare repository will end up in something like /home/<username>/.my-awesome-repo.

Then launch the install script :

curl -sfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Twanislas/dotfiles/master/.bin/install-dotfiles.sh | bash

Usage

dotfiles is an alias to git --git-dir=$HOME/$DOTFILES --work-tree=$HOME so you can track and commit files just like a normal Git repo :

nano ~/.vimrc
<make changes>
dotfiles add -f ~/.vimrc
dotfiles commit -m "Added Vim config"

By default, all the files are ignored. This enables git add -A without adding your whole $HOME folder and children. Use git add -f to add ignored files.

Contributing

Pull requests and issues welcome ! :)