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I very much prefer this simple method: https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles tl;dr: it puts the .g

I very much prefer this simple method: https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles tl;dr: it puts the .git directory aside and lets you use it to store any files on your filesystem. All the usual commands work, except you use something like `config` or `dofiles` instead of `git`: $ config add ~/.config $ config commit -m initial\ commit It's pretty much the same as creating a git repository in /, but doesn't mess with your normal git usage (so if you run `git status` in `/home/foo/src/my-awesome-project` and git repository has not been created there yet, git will fail with "not a git repository" and won't show you the contents of your whole filesystem tree).

politelemon 4y ago
Thanks for sharing that. Question, where do you normally push the "repo" to?
- bryankaplan 4y ago
  I'm not the person you asked, but it's trivial to host your own git repos on a server.
- 5e92cb50239222b 4y ago
  Doesn't matter in my case, there are no secrets there (so I use a public git forge). If this doesn't work for you, you can just push to any old server via ssh: $ git remote add foobar address:path/relative/to/home/dir $ git push foobar , or self-host Gitea with registration closed if you want a proper forge.
lvass 4y ago
>if you run `git status` Is this a problem if you gitignore * (whitelisting)?
- 5e92cb50239222b 4y ago
  I used this initially (before running into the link above), but it still requires using a 'global' git repository which had its share of issues (some build scripts didn't like it, for example).
publicdaniel 4y ago
This is what I do, it has worked great for me. The only annoying thing is I can’t get tab completing to work in my shell (ZSH). Something about the alias I think.
pjz 4y ago
I've been doing this for a few years now and definitely agree! I use .home.git as my .git-aside name and also named the access alias 'homegit'. I didn't know about `git config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no` so I just put '/*' into .home.git/info/exclude, and then of course tracked that in itself by adding '!/.home.git/info/exclude' in there too. It's been amazingly useful when acquiring a new laptop, or wanting to quickly set up a comfortable environment on remote machines. Interestingly, I got it from a Stackoverflow answer (https://stackoverflow.com/a/27336975/8002 https://stackoverflow.com/a/27336975/8002) and not the atlassian tutorial you listed.

politelemon 4y ago

Thanks for sharing that. Question, where do you normally push the "repo" to?

bryankaplan 4y ago
I'm not the person you asked, but it's trivial to host your own git repos on a server.
5e92cb50239222b 4y ago
Doesn't matter in my case, there are no secrets there (so I use a public git forge). If this doesn't work for you, you can just push to any old server via ssh: $ git remote add foobar address:path/relative/to/home/dir $ git push foobar , or self-host Gitea with registration closed if you want a proper forge.

lvass 4y ago

>if you run `git status` Is this a problem if you gitignore * (whitelisting)?

5e92cb50239222b 4y ago
I used this initially (before running into the link above), but it still requires using a 'global' git repository which had its share of issues (some build scripts didn't like it, for example).

publicdaniel 4y ago

This is what I do, it has worked great for me. The only annoying thing is I can’t get tab completing to work in my shell (ZSH). Something about the alias I think.

pjz 4y ago

I've been doing this for a few years now and definitely agree! I use .home.git as my .git-aside name and also named the access alias 'homegit'. I didn't know about `git config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no` so I just put '/*' into .home.git/info/exclude, and then of course tracked that in itself by adding '!/.home.git/info/exclude' in there too. It's been amazingly useful when acquiring a new laptop, or wanting to quickly set up a comfortable environment on remote machines. Interestingly, I got it from a Stackoverflow answer (https://stackoverflow.com/a/27336975/8002 https://stackoverflow.com/a/27336975/8002) and not the atlassian tutorial you listed.