Note on tracking dotfiles across multiple instances easily with git

Tue, 20 Aug 2019 12:00:03 +0000

Came across fast.ai’s dotfiles repo, which provided gems of insight into managing dotfiles in Linux (and Windows WSL) environment by using git bare repos. The repo also provided a very good quick start for some common command line configs. When you are working on various compute instances on cloud and/or on local, it is very handy to track and transfer dotfiles easily.

From scratch

Create an empty repo on Github/Bitbucket/Gitlab named dotfiles

Handling line endings on Windows with git

Tue, 07 Apr 2015 11:00:27 +0000

Note to self: When collaborating on different platforms, one of the most common issue is line endings - LF on Mac/Linux and CRLF on Windows. With git, you can address this issue in the following ways:

1) Configure Global Settings

Windows users: git config --global core.autocrlf true
Mac/Linux users: git config --global core.autocrlf input

2) Configure Per-repository settings

1echo "* text=auto" > .gitattributes
2git add .
3git commit -m "Files play nice in Mac, Linux and Windows"
4git push origin master

Additional reading: StackOverflow thread Github help

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Note on tracking dotfiles across multiple instances easily with git

From scratch

Handling line endings on Windows with git

1) Configure Global Settings

2) Configure Per-repository settings