dotfiles

I think this subject was asked before, but I didn't find anything interesting to work with. I read this Can I store the .git folder outside the files I want tracked? and Single Git repo with directories in multiple locations try to play with it, but didn't find the way to achieve this well. The goal of this, is to store backup preferences for applications and dotfiles. But the strucuture of files look to somethink like this -- /Users/Jeremy/Library/Application\ Support/Sublime\ Text\ 3/Packages/User ------ Theme ------ Snippet ------ Preferences.sublime-settings -- -- /Users/Jeremy/.gitconfig

I was testing https://github.com/skwp/dotfiles ) and unfortunately it did install a lot of things I do not want. For example, right now (with empty .vimrc) when I open vim I get " ============================================================================ " Netrw Directory Listing (netrw v149) " /Users/user/.vim/bundle " Sorted by name " Sort sequence: [\/]$,\<core\%(\.\d\+\)\=\>,\.h$,\.c$,\.cpp$,\~\=\*$,*,\.o$,\.obj$,\.info$,\.swp$,\.bak$,\~$ " Quick Help: <F1>:help -:go up dir D:delete R:rename s:sort-by x:exec " ============================================================================

How do I get Dir['*'] to include dotfiles, e.g., .gitignore , but not . and .. ? I.e., is there a better way to do: `ls -A`.split "\n" perhaps with Dir ? The following solutions are close but both include . & .. : Dir.glob('*', File::FNM_DOTMATCH) Dir['{.*,*}'] So, the following works: Dir.glob('*', File::FNM_DOTMATCH) - ['.', '..'] But, is there still a better way to do this? I'm wondering this to fix line 9 of a Meteor Homebrew Formula . You can't with Dir[] , but you can with Dir.glob , which Dir[] calls: Dir.glob("*", File::FNM_DOTMATCH) You can get rid of the . & .. easily: Dir.glob("*",

I've noticed I have some dotfiles that end with .un~ , for example I have a .vividchalk.vim.un~ , but I'm not sure where that came from. It seems like they are created when I use Vim in the Terminal. What are these files? Can have them remove themselves when I close the file I'm editing? TheEwook When you edit and save files, Vim creates a file with the same name as the original file and an un~ extension at the end. Vim 7.3 contains a new feature persistent undo, that is, undo information won't be lost when quitting Vim and be stored in a file that ends with .un~ . You have set the undofile

I have a number of "dot" files in my home directory that I'd like to track with git - e.g. .pryrc , .zshrc , etc. I want to have a remote repository for these files so that a) there is an easy way to recover my configuration settings should I lose my machine for any reason; and b) to safely track any changes made to the files in the event I screw something up when configuring changes. I initially set up a git repository in the home directory to track them, with a .gitignore file configured to ignore every file except specific, whitelisted file names. However, I realized I'm not crazy about

I am searching through a Git repository and would like to include the .git folder. grep does not include this folder if I run grep -r search * What would be a grep command to include this folder? Please refer to the solution at the end of this post as a better alternative to what you're doing. You can explicitly include hidden files (a directory is also a file). grep -r search * .* The * will match all files except hidden ones and .* will match only hidden files. However this will fail if there are either no non-hidden files or no hidden files in a given directory. You could of course