Using bash to automate dotfiles

Question

I want to create my own automated dotfiles folder. (I\'ll be using git to use version control on my dotfiles, but that\'s irrelevant for the question)

What i simply want

Answer 1

Atlassian has a tutorial on using a git work tree instead of symlinks. The approach uses:

1. a bare git repository in a side folder (such as $HOME/.cfg or $HOME/dotfiles), and
2. a config bash alias to execute git commands that manage the configuration files.

For instance, you can run config status to check which files have been modified, config checkout to get the files in the repository and config commit to update the repository. It requires only git and the bash.