Bare Git Repository

https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles
StreakyCobra

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

The checkout command is expected to fail with a message. This is because your $HOME folder might already have some stock configuration files which would be overwritten by Git. The “BKDIR” part is a rough shortcut to move all the offending files automatically to a backup folder:

git clone --bare <git-repo-url> $HOME/.dotfiles

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

dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

BKDIR=".dotfiles-backup/";
dotfiles checkout 2>&1 | egrep "\s+" | awk {'print $1'} |
  xargs -I{} sh -c "mkdir -p \$(dirname ${BKDIR}{}); mv -iv {} ${BKDIR}{}";

dotfiles checkout

Other Tools

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

Install recent versions of applications

kitty

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/binary/

sh ~/.config/kitty/installer.sh

Note: Kitty prepends its bin folder to the path. So it is more coherent/simpler to copy this behaviour into Zsh.

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