README.md

My .dotfiles

Summary

• Introduction
• Gallery
• Dependencies
• Installation

Introduction

Dotfiles are usually hidden config files that are easily transportable and sharable between installations of *nix operating systems.

Mine are a collection of little things everywhere that make up a fully fledged and development oriented setup.

Gallery

Dependencies

soon^tm

Installation

To be used on a fresh install. Make sure to get every dependencies beforehand.

Step 1: make the magic alias

The goal is to create and get an alias for a bare git repo. The alias to access it is dotfiles instead of plain git. It avoids conflict with other git repos in your ~/ folder.

echo "alias dotfiles='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles --work-tree=$HOME'" >> $HOME/.zshrc

Don't forget to launch a new shell to update the modifications.

Step 2: hide the .dotfiles folder from git

Create a .gitignore and ignore .dotfiles

echo ".dotfiles" >> .gitignore

Step 3: clone my .dotfiles

Yank everything !

git clone --bare https://github.com/notKamui/dotfiles $HOME/.dotfiles

Step 4: checkout to the config

Apply the config.

dotfiles checkout

If there's an error message, it's probably due to an existing .zshrc or .gitignore. If so, yeet them and checkout again.
Then, hide the untracked files.

dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

Step 5: update the cache

You need to update the cache to make sure the fonts in .fonts are installed properly

fc-cache -v