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title = 'Publishing dotfiles'
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aliases = '/posts/2023-11-02-publishing-dotfiles'
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summary = '''Another quick\'n\'dirty post about how I published my dotfiles.'''
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date = '2023-11-02T19:52:37+0100'
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#lastmod = ''
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categories = [ 'computerstuff' ]
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tags = [ 'git' ]
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I've saved my main configuration files since years either on my
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<abbr title="Network Attached Storage">NAS</abbr> or on a git repository
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off site somewhere on the internet. I used Github for this (as many others
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did) but I started my own instance of Gitea when I created my own Mastodon
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instance at the end of 2022. I closed down both of them, my git repos moved
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over to Codeberg and because I used Cloudflare before I actually wanted to
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use Codeberg pages in the first place, but I went the rsync way. I now have
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a pre-push hook in my git repository of my website that rsyncs my hugo made
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website to my webserver... But we should stay on topic here...
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**tl;dr** I do have my [dotfiles][1] in a git repository on codeberg.org and I
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created the repository like:
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[1]: https://www.thegeekyway.com/what-are-dotfiles/
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First of all, create an empty directory in your home directory -- I prefer
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a hidden one, so I'll go for `.cfg` for now.
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```console
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$ git init --bare $HOME/.cfg
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```
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An alias around git with specific worktree and git directory comes in handy
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at this moment. You can also create a function, this is totally up to you.
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I got a function in my zsh configuration and an alias in my fish configuration.
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In my `.zaliases` file there is something like this:
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```zsh
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__is_available git && [[ -d ~/.cfg ]] \
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&& function aconf {
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git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME $@
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}
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```
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`__is_available` is another function that checks if a program is installed.
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My fish configuration looks like this:
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```fish
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if type -q git; and test -d ~/.cfg
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# function aconf --description "Add files to dotfiles repo"
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alias aconf="git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME $argv"
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# end
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end
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```
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Note, I had this as a function before (hence the comments (<kbd>#</kbd>)), but I wanted
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to try this as an alias only at the moment. I won't update this post if I
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may change this back again.
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Running `aconf status` in `$HOME` would print a huge list of files, we don't want
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that (well, I do sometimes switch it on again to have a look at
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files or dirs that I may have missed to add) and we can ignore these untracked files with:
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```console
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$ aconf config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no
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```
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If you want these files shown again, set it to `normal`.
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