eva_arch

Custom Arch Linux configurations and dotfiles

KDE Plasma

Awesome WM (~/.config/awesome/)

Usage

To clone the repo to the existing user home directory and preserve other files, I use the following commands

cd ~ || exit
rm -fr .git
git init
git remote add origin https://github.com/garywei944/eva_arch.git
git config core.excludesFile .eva.gitignore
git fetch --depth=1
git reset --hard origin/main
git branch -m master main
git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/main main

.gitignore and .eva.gitignore

Some useful file search tools like rg or fd checks .gitignore before they open a subdirectory or read a file to improve performance. But maintaining a regular .gitignore file at the user's home directory makes these improvement trivial and useless. So my workaround is to use .eva.gitignore instead of .gitignore by adding a project level configuration core.excludesFile. Note that git still response for a .gitignore file in every directory.