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Managing dotfiles with work-trees.
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Idea: make $HOME the git work-tree, with a bare repo in a dummy folder (.dotfiles). The git commands use .dotfiles as the git directory, and $HOME as the work directory.

Setup

  1. create "bare" repository
  • don't contain working tree aka copy of source files
  • store git revision history in root folder of repo instead of .git subfolder
mkdir $HOME/.dotfiles 
git init --bare $HOME/.dotfiles
  1. setup alias to run git commands in this repo (in .zshrc)
alias dotfiles='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME'
  1. add remote
dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no 
dotfiles remote add origin git@github.com:amitiuttarwar/amus_dotfiles.git

Ongoing

  • use dotfiles instead of git command whenever working with this repo.
  • can arbitrarily add files to push.

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