Synopsis

Dotfiles for home directory.

See https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles for details.

Installing

alias dotfiles="git '--git-dir=${HOME}/.dotfiles' '--work-tree=${HOME}'"

dotfiles init
dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no
dotfiles remote add origin "[email protected]:ch6574/dotfiles.git"
dotfiles fetch
dotfiles checkout origin/master --force --track
dotfiles update-index --assume-unchanged LICENSE README.md
rm ~/LICENSE ~/README.md

Using

Substitute dotfiles for regular git commands:

# Pulling updates
dotfiles branch -r
dotfiles fetch
dotfiles diff origin/master
dotfiles pull --rebase

# Checking what local files are tracked
dotfiles ls-files

# Adding / pushing
dotfiles add .foo
dotfiles status
dotfiles commit -am "added .foo"
dotfiles push

# Pulling specific file
dotfiles checkout .foo

License

GPL v3