.README

For tracking and installing dotfiles. Using a bare git repo in a separate
git-dir, as well as ignoring all untracked files so that no symlinks or similar
are necessary.

## Initial repo setup:

```
git init --bare $HOME/.dots-git
alias dgit='git --git-dir=$HOME/.dots-git/ --work-tree=$HOME'
dgit config status.showUntrackedFiles no
```

## Usage

Now any files in $HOME can be versioned as usual with things like:
```
dgit status
dgit add .vimrc
dgit commit -m 'add vimrc'
dgit push
```

To see what files are being tracked:
`dgit ls-tree --full-tree -r HEAD`
or simply `dgit ls-files`


## Install the dotfiles onto a new system

```
git clone --bare git@github.com:grahamlopez/dots $HOME/.dots-git
dgit checkout
```

if there are already dotfiles present, then need to back them up and move out of
the way and rerun `dgit checkout`


## git configuration

Sometimes, I have had to manually configure the repo after checkout;
edit `.dots-git/config` and add the following:

```
[remote "origin"]
        url = git@github.com:grahamlopez/dots.git
        fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
[status]
        showUntrackedFiles = no

```