James Dot Files

I'm just starting out on my dotfiles journey, probably nothing you want to copy here just yet.

This dotfiles approach is based on https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2016/02/best-way-to-store-dotfiles-git-bare-repo/

So...

Starting from scratch

git init --bare $HOME/.cfg
alias dotfiles='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME'
dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no
echo "alias dotfiles='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME'" >> $HOME/.bashrc

New Machine

git clone --bare https://github.com/jmbrunskill/dotfiles.git $HOME/.cfg
function dotfiles {
   /usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME $@
}
mkdir -p .config-backup
dotfiles checkout
if [ $? = 0 ]; then
  echo "Checked out config.";
  else
    echo "Backing up pre-existing dot files.";
    dotfiles checkout 2>&1 | egrep "\s+\." | awk {'print $1'} | xargs -I{} mv {} .config-backup/{}
fi;
dotfiles checkout
dotfiles config status.showUntrackedFiles no