How to manage your dotfiles on github

Go to your github account and create a "dotfiles" repositoryand initialize it with a Readme.md file
Clone it to your $HOME and give it a ".dotfiles" name
Install gnu stow -> "apt install stow" and optionally [xstow and stows - this one is from github]
cd ~/.dotfiles/
Test it with:
echo "This is a dotfile." > mydotfile
git add mydotfile
git commit -m "create dotfiles repository"
ln -s $HOME/.dotfiles $HOME/.mydotfile
ls -la | grep mydotfile
Create packages to stow - a package is a folder containing files and/or folders - gnu stow does not symlink single files
cd ~/.dotfiles
mkdir emacs && cd emacs
cp ~/.emacs.d/ ~/.emacs.d_bak
mv ~/.emacs.d/ emacs/
make a .gitignore or .gitignore_global in your "~./.dotfiles" and add some excluding rules
stow .emacs.d
git add emacs
git commit -c "my emacs config"
git push
Make as many packages as you want. Stow them and push them to your git repository

SSh Generate an ssh-key to connect to github

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C $email-address

Copy the contents of the id_rsa.pub file to your clipboard

xclip -sel clip < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

you can access github url through your token now

and change the access to ssh: note: you have to create the rsa.pub using ssh port default (22) https://help.github.com/em/articles/changing-a-remotes-url

Workflow

Cleaning Ignored Files

In three steps, you can clean up your repository and make sure your ignored items are indeed ignored:

$ git rm -r --cached . $ git add . $ git commit -m "Clean up ignored files"

test t. p.

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