Config Git Repo

Intro

This is a git repo meant to store my various personal config files. Following documentation is mostly for me when I forget how to do this by the time I buy a new computer. If you are not future me, make sure you replace the git repo urls with your own.

Idea mostly stolen from:

• StreakyCobra's comment on a Hacker News thread
• durdn's article

Setup

Step 1 - local setup

git init --bare $HOME/.cfg
alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME'
config config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no
echo "alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME'" >> $HOME/.zshrc

• Note that the echo command writes to ~/.zshrc. If you are not using zsh, this will be different.

At this point, we have initialised a bare git repo and setup up the config alias. We can now use it to version any file in our $HOME folder:

config status
config add .zshrc
config commit -m "Added .zshrc"
config push

Step 2 - remote setup

1. create a new empty repo on github (no README.md)
2. run:

config remote add origin https://github.com/dchae/.cfg.git

Step 3 - cloning repo to new system

git clone --bare https://github.com/dchae/.cfg.git $HOME/.cfg
# restart shell
config checkout
# delete conflicting files if they exist
config config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

• This assumes you are still running zsh and the aliased .zshrc is working. If not, do the alias echo from step 1 again.