Version control your development environment

Why?

• setup a new laptop
• share your development environment with others
• revert a failed PDE experiment

Approach

• One repo consolidates all config and dot files - outside its .git directory location.
• No symlinks

References

• Using a bare Git repo to get version control for my dotfiles.
• How do you use "git --bare init" repository?
• Awesome dotfiles

Setup

cd ~/workspace
git init --bare dotfiles.git

git status should not display all untracked files

git --git-dir=$HOME/workspace/dotfiles.git/ --work-tree=$HOME config status.showUntrackedFiles no
git --git-dir=$HOME/workspace/dotfiles.git/ --work-tree=$HOME remote add origin git@github.com:borisdev/dotfiles.git

add this alias to your .bashrc or .zshrc...

alias dotgit='git --git-dir=$HOME/workspace/dotfiles.git/ --work-tree=$HOME'

...then source your .bashrc or .zshrc...

...remember to replace dotgit with git in the following commands...

dotgit add ~/.gitconfig
dotgit commit -m "Git dotfiles"
dotgit push origin master