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Bare Git Repository

Starting from scratch

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

Install onto a new system

alias dotfiles='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles --work-tree=$HOME'

echo ".dotfiles" >> .gitignore
git clone --bare <git-repo-url> $HOME/.dotfiles
dotfiles checkout
dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

The step above might fail with a message. This is because your $HOME folder might already have some stock configuration files which would be overwritten by Git. I provide you with a possible rough shortcut to move all the offending files automatically to a backup folder:

mkdir -p .dotfiles-backup
dotfiles checkout 2>&1 | egrep "\s+\." | awk {'print $1'} | \
xargs -I{} mv {} .dotfiles-backup/{}

Other Tools

lazygit --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles --work-tree=$HOME