Dotfiles

Requirements

• zsh
• git
• curl or wget (for Zinit)

Initial Setup

One new machines, the following commands will set these dot files They are careful not to overrite files if they already exist. You can modify this behavior with flags to the reset command.

An alias to dotfiles should be used after this set-up

# start from home directory
cd ~
# clone just the .git directory to a subpath
git clone --bare https://github.com/ajilty/dotfiles.git $HOME/.dotfiles
# fetch without pulling down files
git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME fetch --all
# pull down files, handle conflicts with current go reckless with `reset --hard`
git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME reset --merge
# restart shell
exec zsh

Commands

Action	Command
View tracked files	dotfiles-tracked
Add tracked files	dotfiles add -f <file or directory to add> dotfiles commit <msg> dotfiles push
Update	dotfiles-update
Shell	dotfiles-shell

Also see Zinit commands

Resources

• https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles
• https://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/zshbash-startup-files-loading-order-bashrc-zshrc-etc/
• https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit