Configure

dotfiles-config.setup.sh

#!/bin/bash
set -x
## Rip-off Nicola Paolucci article -> https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles

## Read repo
REPO="git@github.com:anydef/dotfiles.git"

## Setup aliases for dotfile bare repo and pull configs from git.


## Ignore .cfg to avoid possible recursion issues.

echo ".cfg" >> .gitignore

## Clone dotfiles
mkdir -p .cfg
git clone --bare $REPO $HOME/.cfg
function config {
   /usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME $@
}

## Attempt to clone. Might as well fail.
config checkout

## Backup existing dotfiles if prev failed.

if [ $? = 0 ]; then
  echo "Checked out config.";
  else
    echo "Backing up pre-existing dot files.";
    config checkout 2>&1 | egrep "\s+\." | awk {'print $1'} | xargs -I{} mv {} .config-backup/{}
fi;

## Checkout once again
config checkout

## Configure files tracking
config config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no