Dotfiles

1. $ git clone --bare git@github.com:jkugelman/dotfiles.git .dotfiles

   Clone the dotfiles repository from GitHub.

2. $ dotfiles() { git --git-dir="$HOME"/.dotfiles --work-tree="$HOME" "$@"; }

   Set up an alias to send Git commands to .dotfiles, and also set $HOME as the work tree, while storing the Git state at .dotfiles.

3. $ dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

   Set a local configuration setting in .dotfiles to ignore untracked files.

4. $ dotfiles checkout

   Copy the actual files from the .dotfiles repository to $HOME. Git pulls the tracked files out of the compressed database in the Git directory and places them in the work tree.

   dotfiles checkout might fail with a message like:

   error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by checkout:
       .bashrc
       .gitignore
   Please move or remove them before you can switch branches.
   Aborting
   

   Files on your computer might have identical locations and names as the files in the .dotfiles repo. Git doesn't want to overwrite your local files. Back up the files if they're useful; delete them if they aren't.

(These steps were adapted from The best way to store your dotfiles: A bare Git repository EXPLAINED.)

Neovim

$ curl -L https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/latest/download/nvim.appimage -o ~/.local/bin/nvim
$ chmod +x ~/.local/bin/nvim

Docker

$ curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com | sudo sh
$ sudo systemctl enable docker