#Dotfiles

This directory hosts some of my dotfiles.

#Palette

The colors used on most places are based on the vim onedark theme. They are the following:

#Working with this repository

My solution is based on this comment (more info: 1, 2). A bare repository is initialized on a specified directory ($XDG_DATA_HOME/dotfiles in my case) and then it is used as if it was in the home directory using the --work-tree option. I have aliased this git command with options to c (see setup below). The status.showUntrackedFiles no setting is used to avoid seeing all files in the home directory.

#Start from scratch

To start your dotfiles from scratch:

git init --bare "$XDG_DATA_HOME/dotfiles"
alias c='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$XDG_DATA_HOME/dotfiles --work-tree=$HOME'
c config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no
c config --local core.bare false
c config --local core.worktree "$HOME"
# I'm unsure about the following lines
c push --set-upstream origin master
c branch --set-upstream-to=origin/master master

You should put the alias line on your .zshrc or .bashrc.

#Replicate (method #1)

If you already have a repository and want to set up a new computer:

git clone --bare <git-repo-url> "$XDG_DATA_HOME/dotfiles"
alias c='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$XDG_DATA_HOME/dotfiles --work-tree=$HOME'
c checkout
c config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no
c config --local core.bare false
c config --local core.worktree "$HOME"
# I'm unsure about the following lines
c push --set-upstream origin master
c branch --set-upstream-to=origin/master master

You might need to add the following line to the file $XDG_DATA_HOME/dotfiles/config under the origin master url for git to run normally, I'm unsure why it doesn't do it by default, I'll investigate some other time.

fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*

If it gives an error because you already have dotfiles that would be overriden, you can run the following to put them on a different folder and continue with the process. You might need to create subfolder for the mv to work.

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

#Replicate (method #2)

If you don't care about deleting conflicting dotfiles on your computer, the following method also works:

git clone --separate-git-dir="$XDG_DATA_HOME/dotfiles" <git-repo-url> dotfiles-tmp
rsync --recursive --verbose --exclude '.git' dotfiles-tmp/ $HOME/
rm --recursive my-dotfiles-tmp
alias c='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$XDG_DATA_HOME/dotfiles --work-tree=$HOME'
c config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no
c config --local core.worktree "$HOME"

Run c status to make sure everywithing was copied as expected (symlinks will not). Add the --ignore-existing to rsync to ignore already existing files, so you don't override them.

#Notes

I have also created alises c-clean and c-populate to hide or show the files README.md and COPYING. This functions will delete or override the files on the home directory respectively.

On Debian, you might need to change ZSH's syntax highlightning plugin location from /usr/share/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh to /usr/share/zsh/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh.

#License

This repository is licensed under the CC0 1.0 Universal license and therefore is part of the public domain. To the extent possible under law, Oscar Benedito, who associated CC0 with this work, has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work. You can find a copy of the CC0 license on the COPYING file or here.