So I currently have two laptops: one for work and one for personal use. There
is, however, a fair bit of overlap; I'd like to have a bunch of config files
(.bashrc, .vimrc, ~/.config/i3/config, etc) and a bunch of useful
scripts (in ~/bin) available in both places. I looked at a couple solutions,
including dotfiles and such, but a post on
StackOverflow had the outline of a
solution that I'm fairly happy
with.
I put an alias into my .bashrc:
alias homegit='git --work-tree=$HOME --git-dir=$HOME/.home.git'
And wrote a little script to automate setup on new machines:
#!/bin/bash
if [ -d "$HOME/.home.git" ]; then
echo "homegit already set up."
exit 1
fi
homegit="git --work-tree=$HOME --git-dir=$HOME/.home.git"
$homegit init
$homegit remote add origin $MY_HOMEDIR_REPO
$homegit fetch origin
$homegit reset
$homegit checkout -t origin/master
and then ran it. Then I wrote an info/exclude file:
# exclude everything
/*
# ...except the following
!/bin
!/.home.git/info
!/.xscreensaver
!/.git_template
!/.gitconfig
!/.screenrc
!/.bashrc
!/.vimrc
!/.xinitrc
!/.config
/.config/*
!/.config/i3/
So only the files I wanted to save were listed in a 'homegit status'. Then I
could just homegit add them and could go to town!
I imagine maintaining the info/exclude file is going to be the main issue,
but it's probably good for me to keep up with that minor skill anyway.
