Dotfiles

Get started on a new machine.

Add an alias for dotfiles

alias dotfiles='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME'

Avoid weird problems

echo ".dotfiles" >> .gitignore

Clone the remote repo

git clone --bare >URL< $HOME/.dotfiles

Checkout the content

dotfiles checkout

When running the checkout command the following might occur:

error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by checkout:
    .profile
    .bashrc
    .gitignore
    .... whatever
Please move or remove them before you can switch branches.
Aborting

This happens if your home directory already has the following files. I usually delete them and run the dotfiles checkout again.

Obviously you don't want to see your entire Home directory when running dotfiles status. To disable this, simply run:

dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no