Cloning this repository

I am using a bare style git repo that stores the git files in a seperate directory from the actual repositories content. We will be cloning directly in the home directory:

cd ~
git clone --bare https://github.com/stijnbilliet/dotfiles.git $HOME/dotfiles.git/
git --git-dir=$HOME/dotfiles.git/ --work-tree=$HOME checkout

Setting up the desktop

Ensure .unbox is executable

sudo chmod +x .unbox

Then proceed to run it

./.unbox

The dependencies will be checked and the ansible playbook will be run to ensure the required packages are installed.

Interacting with the repo

As we are using a bare repo cloned directly into the home directory, using standard git commands in the home directory will not work. One could continue to use git --git-dir=$HOME/dotfiles.git/ --work-tree=$HOME followed by the git command (e.g. status). The setup script has added a git alias that does this, so to interact with the dotfiles proceed to use the alias as follows:

git df status