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Dotfiles
Setup & Usage
Create a directory that'll act as the bare git directory, then initialize it using $HOME
as the working tree.
mkdir $HOME/.dotfiles
git init --bare $HOME/.dotfiles
To manage it, use GIT_DIR
and GIT_WORK_TREE
. Preferably as an alias.
alias dotfiles="GIT_DIR=$HOME/.dotfiles GIT_WORK_TREE=$HOME"
From there, prefix dotfiles
to any commands that recognize these variables.
# Git
dotfiles git add .zshrc
dotfiles git status
# VS Codium
dotfiles codium
# ...
Hide untracked files from dotfiles git status
, otherwise everything in $HOME
will show up.
dotfiles git config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no
For VS Codium, create $HOME/.vscode/settings.json
.
{
"git.untrackedChanges": "hidden"
}
Subtleties
Can't add files from git repositories
For example, since .oh-my-zsh
is a git repository, files inside .oh-my-zsh/custom
can't be added. But since they're just scripts like any other, place them directly inside $HOME
(or anywhere else) and source <file>
them in .zshrc
manually.
Another solution is to set $ZSH_CUSTOM
to something outside the $ZSH
directory.