Syncing dotfiles

Problem

I'd like the machines I work on to have the same configuration, i.e. the same dotfiles.

See also: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dotfiles

Solution

GitHub - anishathalye/dotbot: A tool that bootstraps your dotfiles.

Plugins are git submodules preferably.

Add submodule

~/.dotfiles$ git submodule add https://github.com/tpope/vim-rails vim/pack/plugins/start/vim-rails

Update submodules

git submodule update

Git will go into your submodules and fetch and update for you, but as specified in the index of the superproject

git submodule update --remote [SUBMODULE]

Git will by default try to update all of your submodules. Instead of using the superproject’s recorded SHA-1 to update the submodule, use the status of the submodule’s remote-tracking branch. This is equivalent to running git pull in each submodule, which is generally exactly what you want.

git submodule update --init --recursive

# Short-hand version of going into each submodule and do a `git checkout master; git pull`.
# Options:
# --recursive: in case you have submodules within submodules
git submodule foreach --recursive git pull origin master
# Now the submodules are in the state you want, so
git commit -am "Pulled down update to submodule_dir"

See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5828324/update-git-submodule-to-latest-commit-on-origin

Journal

20140206

GitHub does dotfiles

Tips and tricks storing your dotfiles on GitHub

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