git-sync VS dotfiles

For those that want to crosslink anything and everything I suggest Logseq[1]. Its journal and graph view are fantastic. And it has many iseful plugins. I use it along with git-sync [2] and syncthing [3] now I can sync the notes across my work, personal desktops and my mobile.

[1] http://logseq.com/

[2] https://github.com/simonthum/git-sync

[3] https://syncthing.net/

I’m using almost the same approach to automatically sync my vault between my devices (Git, Termux, Tasker). The main difference is, that I'm using the great git-sync script by Simon Thum for syncing. In the past I had some problems with a simple script that included only git pull, commit and push. With the git-sync script I now have less problems. Nevertheless you can't avoid to have conflicts if you or plugins edit the same files at the same time. I have documented my setup in this GitHub repository.

Before I came to macos I was using stow to keep all my dotfiles in one place. Then they were being copied nightly to a private github repo with git-sync which, as you know, is nice for versioning. I also had the central dotfile folder in a syncthing folder, so all my configs were always the same on any machine I used. If I update anything on one computer, it's changed on the other automatically. I also have a VPS that's participating, and somewhat acting as an always-on central sync server to keep everything recent.

I use vim and git with git-sync addon (I think it's this one: https://github.com/simonthum/git-sync). I don't care too much about mobile, but I also have configured vim via Termux on my Android phone.

I use git bare, it works great: syncs only the files I explicitly add, allows to place git repos as children of $HOME, and I get to sync changes with a single command: you can use an alias to rebase, commit and push or something like git-sync.

This is not enough if you want to update from multiple machines. Again u/blevlabs I really suggest you use something like https://github.com/simonthum/git-sync to do this, as it gracefully handles a lot of the corner cases that you might want to implement with something like this.

My current setup has some issues, but you might find my dracula theme settings interesting. I added support for truecolor, darkened the background, and adjusted currentline color.

I keep them on github and my home directory contains a bare rpoe. I followed a guide to create my repo.

My dotfiles, which aren't super impressive.

This is what I do. I originally went the symlink route, but this is much easier to manage.

For more information: https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles and my dotfiles at https://github.com/mikeslattery/dotfiles

I maintain a dotfiles project in github (it also has /etc files in it). Helps when setting up another separate device.

I have a dotfiles project in github. In macos, I would just check it out into my home directory and have all my familiar settings like I have in Linux.

That's exactly what I created: https://github.com/mikeslattery/dotfiles

Create a dotfiles project, like mine

git clone --bare https://github.com/mikeslattery/dotfiles .dotfiles alias config="git -C $HOME --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles --work-tree=$HOME" config config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no config reset --hard