Guiferviz's dotfiles

What does this dotfiles includes?

• Oh My Zsh configuration.
• NeoVim configuration with UltiSnips.
• Git Hooks that you will need to copy into your repos if you want to use them.
• This README :)

These configurations are built to work interchangeably on both Linux and Mac.

Set-up on a new computer

Clone this repository in a directory called .dotfiles in your home directory. We clone the repo in bare mode, so we are not going to clone the content of the repo, just the git files (i.e. we will clone only the files that we usually have in the .git directory in a normal repository).

$ git clone --bare git@github.com:guiferviz/dotfiles.git $HOME/.dotfiles

Create an alias to access git commands from everywhere in our PC.

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

Checkout the files with:

$ dotfiles checkout

You can see an error if you already have some of the files in this repo. For example, you can already have a different .zshrc file in your HOME directory. To solve this problem, remove (or backup if it's important) the existing one and run dotfiles checkout again.

More information in: https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles

Usage

dotfiles is an alias for a git command in our $HOME/.dotfiles repo. From any directory of your computer you can add files, commit and push like you usually do in any other git repo.

For example, once I finish editing this README I will run the following commands to add it to the dotfiles repo:

~ ⌚ 16:59:08
$ vim README.md

~ ⌚ 17:23:00
$ dotfiles add README.md   

~ ⌚ 17:23:07
$ dotfiles status       
On branch main
Changes to be committed:
  (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)

	new file:   README.md

Untracked files not listed (use -u option to show untracked files)

~ ⌚ 17:23:10
$ dotfiles commit -m "adding readme"
[main 6fb7674] adding readme
 1 file changed, 58 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 README.md

~ ⌚ 17:23:24
$ dotfiles push origin main         
Counting objects: 3, done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 1.70 KiB | 1.71 MiB/s, done.
Total 3 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (1/1), completed with 1 local object.
To github.com:guiferviz/dotfiles.git
   a20be96..6fb7674  main -> main

This README is now in Github and can be fetched from any other PC.