My dotfiles configuration for Arch Linux

Configuration

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How to install the dotfiles.

1. create an alias: alias dotfiles='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME'

2. ignore the clone folder: echo ".dotfiles" >> .gitignore

3. Clone the repository: git clone --bare <git-repo-url> $HOME/.dotfiles

4. Checkout the actual content form the bare repository into your $HOME: dotfiles checkout

NOTE: This action might result in an error saying that files would be overwritten. Solution is, firstly backup those files using:

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

after the backup remove the conflict files and run dotfiles checkout command again.

5. Set the flag showUntrackedFiles to no on this specific (local) repository: dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

6. All done! Now you can manage your dotfiles with git, example:

dotfiles status
dotfiles add .zshrc
dotfiles commit -m "adding .zshrc"
dotfiles push

Automated setup with Ansible

Instead of manual installation, you can use the included Ansible playbook to automatically install packages, clone dotfiles, and configure system services.

Prerequisites

sudo pacman -S ansible

Usage

cd ~/ansible
ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yml
ansible-playbook playbook.yml -K

What it does