Managing dotfiles

Requirements

stow, git

# Brew (Darwin or Linux)
brew install git stow
# Arch Linux
sudo pacman -Sy git stow --noconfirm
# Debian or Ubuntu
sudo apt install git stow -y

Initialization

• Dump all desired config etc. files to a folder created with a name you wish

• use command stow .

  • I would recommend you to use --ignore='.DS_Store' if on mac

• Initialize git repository and go on

Restoration from remote repository

# clone and enter directory
git clone https://github.com/berkctezc/.dotfiles
  && cd .dotfiles;
# adopt command is for solving conflicts between
# already existing files and the ones you pulled
stow . --adopt;
# after adopting use git reset to overwrite existing
# files with the ones from the repo
git reset --hard;