Dotfiles

• No external tooling 🙅‍♂️
• No symlinks 🙅‍♂️
• Files are tracked on git using a bare repository

Personally I really like the advantage of not having to deal with symlinks and external tooling at all. I can just track the original files in a “bare” repository and push it to Github. Using a custom command (dtf) makes this very easy to do.

What does it include?

Configurations for the following tools:

• zsh and oh-my-zsh
• git
• asdf

dotfiles
├── .oh-my-zsh-custom
│   ├── aliases.zsh
│   ├── environment.zsh
│   ├── functions.zsh
│   ├── plugins
│   └── themes
├── .zshrc
├── .gitconfig
├── .gitignore_global
└── .tool-versions

How does it work?

Maintaining dotfiles

Please read the original article for a detailed walkthrough. I did change around a few things, like the dotfiles directory and command name. But the core idea and method is well explained.

Dotfiles: Best Way to Store in a Bare Git Repository

Files that are not explicitly tracked will not be shown. This is so that when you type dtf status and other commands later, files you are not interested in tracking will not show up as untracked. Use the custom dtf command to add or update dotfiles:

dtf status
dtf add .zshrc
dtf commit -m "Add zshrc"
dtf add .gitconfig
dtf commit -m "Add gitconfig"
dtf push

Installing dotfiles on new machine

Because the dotfiles maintain their conventional location, I would assume that you can just clone this repo into $HOME like:

git clone git@github.com:mitchellslager/dotfiles.git $HOME

But that might not work because the directory is not empty. If that fails I’m fine with just copying and pasting the files.