---
title: DotFiles
updated: 2021-08-04 14:37:25Z
created: 2020-08-19 11:26:42Z
---

[https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles](https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles)
install git and git-lfs
```bash
apt install git git-lfs
```

setup the directory and alias
```bash
git init --bare $HOME/.cfg
alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME'
config config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no
echo "alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME'" >> $HOME/.bashrc
``````

example of loading stuff into the repo
```bash
config status  
config add .vimrc  
config commit -m "Add vimrc"  
config add .bashrc  
config commit -m "Add bashrc"  
config push
```

init a new machine with the repo
```bash
alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME'  
echo ".cfg" >> .gitignore  
git clone --bare git@github.com:sstent/dotfiles.git $HOME/.cfg  
config checkout
```