dotfiles

personal dotfiles

To get started on a new machine:

$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/feralgroundhog/dotfiles.git

# symlink whichever dotfiles you want to use, e.g.,
$ ln -sf ~/.tmux.conf <reponame>/tmux/.tmux.conf
$ ln -sf ~/.vimrc <reponame>/vim/.vimrc
# . . .  etc . . .

Managing vim plugins with submodules

Ref: https://gist.github.com/manasthakur/d4dc9a610884c60d944a4dd97f0b3560

Adding plugins

$ git submodule add https://github.com/<user>/<repo>.git <local-repo>/vim/.vim/bundle/<plugin> 
$ git commit -am "Added submodule for <plugin>"

Removing plugins

$ git submodule deinit vim/.vim/bundle/<plugin>
$ git rm -r vim/.vim/bundle/<plugin>
$ rm -r .git/modules/vim/.vim/bundle/<plugin>

Updating individual plugins

$ cd ~/.vim/bundle/<plugin>
$ git pull origin master

Even better, run git fetch origin master to review changes, and then git merge.

Update all plugins

$ cd ~/.vim
$ git submodule foreach git pull origin master

New commits to plugins create uncommitted changes in the main repository. After any updates in the submodules, you need to commit the main repository as well:

$ cd ~/.vim
$ git commit -am "Updated plugins."

On another machine, if a git pull for the main repository leads to uncommitted changes in the submodules (as a few plugins got updated), perform git submodule update to change the recorded state of the submodules.