This repository contains my dotfiles for various programs that I use in Unix-like environment.
To manage these files, I use a technique described here
It is assumed here that the current working directory is $HOME.
To install dotfiles, first clone the code on a local machine:
# Clone the repository to $HOME/.dotfiles
git clone --bare git@github.com:dmitry-kabanov/dotfiles .dotfiles
then checkout to the $HOME directory:
GIT_DIR=$HOME/.dotfiles GIT_WORK_TREE=$HOME git checkout
then run the installation script:
bash .bin/setup.sh
Every time when you need to work with the dotfiles repo, set environment
variables $GIT_DIR and $GIT_WORK_TREE by the following command:
source .bin/activate_dotfiles_repo.sh
After finishing working with the repo, the best is to close the terminal tab to "undo" the environment variables.
Every time, I need to modify the dotfiles, I work in a fresh terminal instance,
where I source a shell script that sets the environment variables $GIT_DIR
and GIT_WORK_TREE:
source .bin/activate_github_repo.sh
After all git-related operations are done, I just close this terminal instance to make sure that these environment variables do not interfere with any other git repository.