loide's dotfiles

This repository serves as my way to help me setup and maintain my Mac.

Initial setup

Install this dotfiles into a new system (or migrate to this setup):

Prior to the installation make sure you have committed the alias to your .bashrc:

`alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME'`

And that your source repository ignores the folder where you'll clone it, so that you don't create weird recursion problemas:

`echo "".cfg" >> .gitignore`

Clone this repository into a bare repository in a "dot" folder:

git clone --bare git@github.com:loide/dotfiles.git $HOME/.cfg
Define the alias in the current shell scope:

alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME'
Checkout the actual content from the bare repository to your $HOME:

config checkout
The step above might fail with a message like:

error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by checkout:

.filenames

Please move or remove them before you can switch branches. Aborting

This is because your $HOME folder might already have some stock configuration files which would be overwritten by Git.

Update the dot files in your home and then commit:

config status

config add <filename>

config commit -m "Commit message"

config push

Note: you may need to run config push --set-upstream origin master to set remote for the first push