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Restore your dotfiles

🚀 Installation

📋 Restore options

With wget:

Terminal window
bash <(wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CodelyTV/dotly/HEAD/restorer)

With curl:

Terminal window
bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CodelyTV/dotly/HEAD/restorer)

Manually

  • Install git
  • Clone your dotfiles repository git clone [your repository of dotfiles] $WHERE_YOU_WANT_TO_PLACE_THEM
  • Go to your dotfiles folder cd $WHERE_YOU_PLACED_THEM
  • Install git submodules git submodule update --init --recursive modules/dotly
  • Install your dotfiles DOTFILES_PATH="$WHERE_YOU_PLACED_THEM" DOTLY_PATH="$DOTFILES_PATH/modules/dotly" "$DOTLY_PATH/bin/dot" self install
  • Restart your terminal
  • Import your packages dot package import

😬 Important notes

During the installation

  • Where are going to be located your dotfiles?
  1. press Enter if you ok with the default location (~/.dotfiles)
  2. if you want a custom location, the path should include the name of your new dotfiles folder (ex. ~/Documents/workspace/<folder_name>), you don’t need to create it manually, if you do that, you’ll get a .back folder of your empty folder
  • Selecting authentication method if you are going to clone your repo using the Other git alternative, before this, you need to create an ssh key and it to your github account. For more information check this docs