Dotfiles et al.

It's recommended that you fork this repository and adjust as necessary.

Clone to a bare repo in $HOME/.hovel/repo.git:

git clone --bare [email protected]:kroogs/hovel.git $HOME/.hovel/repo.git

Checkout the bare repo's contents:

git --git-dir=$HOME/.hovel/repo.git --work-tree=$HOME checkout 

This will error if it attempts to overwrite files. Backup and remove the offending files and run the command again. If you're sure it's safe, adding an -f switch will overwrite them.

Run the generic install.sh script:

sh $HOME/.hovel/install.sh

Since it's just git, you can add, commit, and push any file in $HOME:

hovel add .profile
hovel commit .profile -m "Add my spiffy example .profile"
hovel push

You can pull in changes made to remote repositories:

hovel pull

You can also use branches to make adjustments for different environments:

hovel checkout -b machine-name