How to manage your dotfiles on github

1. Go to your github account and create a "dotfiles" repositoryand initialize it with a Readme.md file

2. Clone it to your $HOME and give it a ".dotfiles" name

3. Install gnu stow -> "apt install stow" and optionally [xstow and stows - this one is from github]

4. cd ~/.dotfiles/

5. Test it with:

6. echo "This is a dotfile." > mydotfile

7. git add mydotfile

8. git commit -m "create dotfiles repository"

9. ln -s $HOME/.dotfiles $HOME/.mydotfile

10. ls -la | grep mydotfile

11. Create packages to stow - a package is a folder containing files and/or folders - gnu stow does not symlink single files

12. cd ~/.dotfiles

13. mkdir emacs && cd emacs

14. cp ~/.emacs.d/ ~/.emacs.d_bak

15. mv ~/.emacs.d/ emacs/

16. make a .gitignore or .gitignore_global in your "~./.dotfiles" and add some excluding rules

17. stow .emacs.d

18. git add emacs

19. git commit -c "my emacs config"

20. git push

21. Make as many packages as you want. Stow them and push them to your git repository

Source: https://alexpearce.me/2016/02/managing-dotfiles-with-stow/

SSh Generate an ssh-key to connect to github

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C $email-address

Copy the contents of the id_rsa.pub file to your clipboard

xclip -sel clip < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

you can access github url through your token now

and use https://github.com/microsoft/Git-Credential-Manager-Core#linux-install-instructions

https://github.com/microsoft/Git-Credential-Manager-Core/blob/main/docs/linuxcredstores.md

credential manager https://github.com/microsoft/Git-Credential-Manager-Core#linux-install-instructions

https://docs.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/adding-a-new-ssh-key-to-your-github-account

https://www.w3docs.com/snippets/git/how-to-generate-ssh-key-for-git.html

and change the access to ssh: note: you have to create the rsa.pub using ssh port default (22) https://help.github.com/em/articles/changing-a-remotes-url

Workflow

1. git add . or a specific file
2. git commit -a or:
3. git commit -m "any message"
4. git status
5. git push

Cleaning Ignored Files

In three steps, you can clean up your repository and make sure your ignored items are indeed ignored:

$ git rm -r --cached . $ git add . $ git commit -m "Clean up ignored files"

https://www.git-tower.com/learn/git/faq/ignore-tracked-files-in-git pos

https://hacker-tools.github.io/dotfiles/

test t. p.