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A bare git repo containing my dotfiles.

Add the repo itself to a local .gitignore to prevent any future recursion issues

echo "dotfiles" >> .gitignore

Clone the repo

git clone [email protected]:Ben10164/dotfiles.git $HOME/dotfiles # clone to home
# if using https, use https://github.com/Ben10164/dotfiles

Create an alias for easy interaction with the bare repo

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

this line can be added to .zshrc (recommended) or .zshenv (not recommended) for making interacting with the repo easier in the future

i.e. config pull will update the .config directory

Backup any files/folders that conflict with my config

mkdir -p .config-backup && \
config checkout 2>&1 | \
egrep "\s+\." | \
awk {'print $1'} | \
xargs -I{} rsync -R {} .config-backup/

if there is an issue where it is throwing an error not being able to find files named M, D, A or any other git status character, change the print $1 to be print $2 as this means the repo has already been set up

config checkout

config config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no