stijnme/dotfiles

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dotfiles

Hidden config files

Setup

Source: Dotfiles: Best Way to Store in a Bare Git Repository

The technique consists in storing a Git bare repository in a "side" folder (like $HOME/.cfg or $HOME/.myconfig) using a specially crafted alias so that commands are run against that repository and not the usual .git local folder, which would interfere with any other Git repositories around.

Create bare repo + setup dotconfig alias.

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

From that point, use the dotconfig alias as the git command:

dotconfig status
dotconfig add .vimrc
dotconfig commit -m "Add vimrc"
dotconfig add .bashrc
dotconfig commit -m "Add bashrc"
dotconfig push

Restore

dotconfig command

OSX uses by default zsh, but .zshrc contains:

if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
    . ~/.bash_aliases
fi

Hence, added to .bash_aliases:

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

Source the configuration again:

source ~/.zshrc

Clone

Clone this repo into a bare version:

git clone --bare [email protected]:stijnme/dotfiles.git $HOME/.cfg

Checkout

Checkout the bare repo into the current "workdir":

cd ~
dotconfig checkout
dotconfig config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

nvim

Prerequisite

• For nvimtree and nvim-web-devicons a nerdfont is required (has extra icons included): Nerdfonts download
• To use live grep in Telescope, the external tool ripgrep is required: Install ripgrep

sudo apt-get install ripgrep

• For certain tree-sitter parsers, the tree-sitter-cli is required (and should be added to PATH):

npm -g install tree-sitter-cli

Install

After clonin the files in the .config/nvim folder, start nvim and execute following commands:

:PackerSync

To install the nvim packages with Packer. Next is launching Mason to install the necessary LSP, linter and formatting packages:

:Mason

Credits

nvim

nvim config heavily inspired by Josean