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Config files and setup scripts
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Suggestion for Linking dotfiles #1

Open torch2424 opened 6 years ago

torch2424 commented 6 years ago

So I saw you opted for symbolic linking, but if you don't mind, let me share what I do 😄

In your .gitignore, ignore everything. E.g:

**/*

And then to add files, simply force add them:

git add -f [MY_FILE_HERE]

That way, you always have files in the correct place, and it's super easy :)

Also, you want to clone the repo, and then copy everything into your $HOME directory. See my my script here.

See this dotfiles guide for more info.

Anyways, sorry for being nosy, just saw and thought I might try to help ❤️

MasterKale commented 6 years ago

How do you propagate updates to your various config files after you've copied them into place? Just re-run your "copy files into place" script?

I considered your approach before going with symbolic links. I couldn't shake the feeling that it'd be simpler to use ln -s to "move" the files into place so that later, after making changes, it'd be as simple as a git pull to update things.

torch2424 commented 6 years ago

Naw dude, you just git pull and it works with this method as well :)

Since your dotfile .git will live inside of ~/.git, everything will update fine :)

And as you get a lot of dotfiles, making symlinks is going to be hard/complicated.