README.md

Dotfiles/Configuration files

This is my new dotfiles repository. Lot of the old configs are kept unmaintained on the older repository.

What is dotfiles?

Dotfiles are the customization files that are used to personalize your Linux or other Unix-based system. You can tell that a file is a dotfile because the name of the file will begin with a period–a dot! The period at the beginning of a filename or directory name indicates that it is a hidden file or directory. This repository contains my personal dotfiles. They are stored here for convenience so that I may quickly access them on new machines or new installs. Also, others may find some of my configurations helpful in customizing their own dotfiles.

What to do with dotfiles?

There are a hundred ways to manage your dotfiles. Personally, I use the git, yadm and GitHub for managing my dotfiles.

Articles discussing dotfiles management are listed below:

• Managing dotfiles with style with rcm (Ronnie Nissan)
• Interactive dotfile management with dotbare (Kevin Zhuang)
• Manage Dotfiles With a Bare Git Repository (Bonghyun Kim)

How set up these dotfiles?

First you need to install yadm, then run these commands to clone this repository with yadm:

cd ~
yadm clone https://github.com/ritchielrez/dotfiles-new

Then replace the local configs with the configs from this repository:

yadm checkout --force

Now you should be able to use all of configs!! If you want to stage, commit and do git commands on this repository. Instead of providing the arguments to git, provide them to the dotfiles alias or yadm command..

Show let's suppose I want to check status of this repository, I run dotfiles status/yadm status, instead of git status. And you have done it! You can now, commit changes to my repository, make pull requests, or just, test it out. Before leaving out, don't forget to STAR this repository! Thanks for checking out.