Dotfiles

Overview

• project-awesome dotfiles
  • GitHub repo
• dotfiles.github.io
  • "Your unofficial guide to doing dotfiles on GitHub"
  • General-purpose dotfiles utilities

Dotfile managers

• chezmoi
• chezmoi vs. dotbot, rcm, vcsh, yadm, bare git
• Dotfile manager tool list, sorted by GitHub stars

git bare repository

• Simplest Way to Sync dotfiles and config Using Bare Git repo
• Manage Dotfiles With a Bare Git Repository

Initialize:

git init --bare $HOME/.dotfiles
echo "alias dotfiles='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME'" >> $HOME/.sh_aliases
. ./.sh_aliases
dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no
dotfiles config --local user.name Varac
dotfiles config --local user.email varac@varac.net
dotfiles remote add origin git@0xacab.org:varac-projects/dotfiles.git

Usage:

dotfiles add ~/.config/sway
dotfiles status
dotfiles commit -m'Initial commit'
dotfiles push --set-upstream origin main

Pull to another device:

First, add an ssh key of the new device to 0xacab profile: keys Then:

git clone --bare git@0xacab.org:varac-projects/dotfiles.git $HOME/.dotfiles
echo "alias dotfiles='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME'" >> $HOME/.sh_aliases
dotfiles checkout
dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

Fetch all remote branches:

Somehow, dotfiles fetch doesn't fetch any other remote branches, but this will do:

dotfiles fetch  origin '*:*'

Manage dotfiles with plain git repo

• Managing my dotfiles as a git repository Using a standard git repo, not a bare one

Manage dotfiles with Ansible

• Link files task
• geerlingguy/ansible-role-dotfiles

Other tools

Stale:

• dot

Example dotfile config repos

• sloria/dotfiles
• dotphiles A community driven framework of dotfiles
• andschwa/dotfiles

pre-commit

• pre-commit for bare repos with separate working tree and git dir

Solution:

alias dotfiles="GIT_DIR=/home/varac/.dotfiles/ GIT_WORK_TREE=/home/varac"
dotfiles pre-commit install
dotfiles pre-commit run --all