dotfiles

This repository contains my personal configuration files, commonly known as dotfiles.

Installation

Just fetch it to your home directory:

cd ~
git init
git remote add origin <this repo>
git fetch
git checkout origin/master
git submodule update --init --recursive

If you want to hide some settings you can do it with a sparse checkout:

git config core.sparseCheckout true
echo '/*' >> .git/info/sparse-checkout
echo '!<hidden path>' >> .git/info/sparse-checkout
git read-tree -mu HEAD

If you want to hide the .git directory from the home directory so that it doesn't interfere with any other git-repositories around, you can do it using the git-dir and work-tree options:

GIT_DIR="${HOME}/.dotfiles" # you can export GIT_DIR and skip git-dir options
git --git-dir="${GIT_DIR}" init
git --git-dir="${GIT_DIR}" remote add origin <this repo>
git --git-dir="${GIT_DIR}" fetch
git --git-dir="${GIT_DIR}" --work-tree="${HOME}" checkout origin/master
git --git-dir="${GIT_DIR}" --work-tree="${HOME}" submodule update --init --recursive

If you choose the last variant, the script .local/bin/dotfiles can help you to manage the repository.

Dependencies

To install dependencies see the .pkglist folder.

Deletion

In order to delete the repository and all its files from the system, you can switch to the root commit or the empty-work-tree tag then delete the .dotfiles directory and copy original config files from the /etc/skel/ directory to the home directory.