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Profile Management with Git and GitHub

Screenshots

rEFInd

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EFI boot picker screen
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EFI menu screen

ZSH

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ZSH command prompt with powerlevel9k theme
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ZSH command prompt with auto-suggestions

Tmux

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TMUX status line showing host OS, session name and other things

Nvim

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Neovim setup, customized for C++ developement

Neomutt

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Neomutt setup, terminal based email utility

AwesomeWM

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AweomeWM - Alacritty, Zim, Zathura and notifications panel
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AweomeWM - firefox

Setup/Install

Run the bootstrap script

$ bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ragu-manjegowda/config/master/.config/scripts/bootstrap.sh)"

The following describes a simple way to manage profile configuration files using GitHub.

Features

  • Centralized configuration management
  • Files live in their native locations (no symbolic linking)
  • Home directory is not a Git repository
  • All the power of git with a simple alias

Setup Repository

  • Log into GitHub and create a repository named config
  • Add your public keys to GitHub (if you haven’t done so already)
  • Open a terminal and switch to your home directory $ cd ~
  • Create a configuration directory $ mkdir .config.git
  • Add the following alias to your .bashrc and/or your .bash_profile alias config='git --git-dir=$HOME/.config.git/ --work-tree=$HOME'
  • Add your .bash_profile to the configuration repository $ config add .bash_profile
  • Commit the changes $ config commit -m 'Initial commit'
  • Change the origin to GitHub $ config remote add origin [email protected]:GITHUB_USERNAME/config.git
  • Push the changes config push origin master

If you get an error when running config pull to the effect of You asked me to pull without... run the follow:

$ echo -e '[branch "master"]\n  remote = origin\n  merge = refs/heads/master' >> ~/.config.git/config

Setup Configuration Management on a Different System

  1. Add your public keys to GitHub (if you haven’t done so already)
  2. Switch to your home directory $ cd ~
  3. Backup your local configuration files, example: $ mv .bash_profile .bash_profile.bk $ mv .bashrc .bashrc.bk
  4. Clone your configuration repository $ git clone [email protected]:GITHUB_USERNAME/config.git config.git
  5. Move the git metadata to ~/.config.git $ mv config.git/.git .config.git
  6. Enable dotglob $ shopt -s dotglob
  7. Move your configuration files to your home directory $ mv -i config.git/* .
  8. Delete the config.git directory $ rmdir config.git
  9. Logout and log back in
  10. Note: Sub-modules needs to be updated $ git submodule update --remote --rebase

Git tracking using vim plugins

  1. Set core.worktree like the following $ git --git-dir=$HOME/.config.git --work-tree=$HOME config --local core.worktree $HOME
  2. open files of this repository with the alias cvim

Basic Usage

  • config pull - get latest configuration changes
  • config add FILENAME - add a configuration file
  • config commit -a - save all configuration changes
  • config push - push configuration changes to GitHub
  • and any other config GIT_OPTION

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