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from: Omar Polo <op@xglobe.in>
date: Thu Apr 02 09:58:59 2020 UTC

new post "$HOME as a git repo"

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+I finally decided to track my dotfiles on a git repository.  This
+should make things simpler when migrating to another machine, as well
+as having consistent configuration across various computers.  We'll
+see how well it will go for me.
+
+I've done a bit of research on the internet and I've found
+[this](https://drewdevault.com/2019/12/30/dotfiles.html).  The author
+of that post suggest to use your whole $HOME as a git repository, with
+a one-byte `.gitignore`:
+
+```
+*
+```
+
+While the mine is actually two-bytes long due to a newline, this got
+me started.  Git will ignore everything (music, documents, logs...)
+except files that you add with `-f`.  So far so good.
+
+Except that this broke all my git repos.
+
+I have several git repositories in subfolders inside my home, and
+since git goes recursively when searching for `.gitignore`s it will
+ignore EVERY file.  (this shouldn't be a surprise, but I thought
+`.gitignore` were per-repo)
+
+Maybe the author has his `~/build` or `~/src` mounted with NFS or
+something else (git should stop at filesystem boundaries AFAIK), but
+this isn't my case.
+
+Fortunately there is a simple solution:
+```
+$ cd
+$ mv .gitignore .git/info/exclude
+```
+
+This way, for your `~` repository, git will exclude files listed on
+`~/.git/info/exclude` (that is, every file not manually added), while
+behaving normally on every repository you have inside your home.
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+(add-post! {:title "$HOME as a git repo"
+            :slug "home-as-git-repo"
+            :date "2020/04/02"
+            :tags #{:git}
+            :short "How do you track dotfiles?"})
+
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