Tips and Tricks

• Most commands related to files support multi selection (default fzf setting is TAB for multi select).

• Most commands related to commits and branches doesn't support multi selection.

• Checkout fzf doc for more default fzf keybinds information.

• Alias dotbare to shorter words to type less.

  alias dots=dotbare

• Create keybinds for dotbare (e.g. bind ctrl-g to launch fedit and edit files).

  # zsh example
  bindkey -s '^g' "dotbare fedit"^j
  # bash example
  bind -x '"\C-g":"dotbare fedit"'

• dotbare has disabled the command dotbare add --All as it is a really dangerous command in the conext of dotbare as it will stage everything in your $DOTBARE_TREE to the index.

  # Recommended ways
  dotbare fadd  # and then press alt-a to select all
  dotbare add -u # stage all modified file to index
  dotbare commit -am "message" # this also works, it will stage all modified files and then commit

• Add the value of $DOTBARE_DIR to global .gitignore to avoid any weird recursion problem if accidentally adding $DOTBARE_DIR to index, the value needs to be relative path to $DOTBARE_TREE

  # e.g. DOTBARE_DIR="$HOME/.cfg", DOTBARE_TREE="$HOME"
  echo ".cfg" >> $HOME/.gitignore
  # e.g. DOTBARE_DIR="$HOME/.config/.cfg" DOTBARE_TREE="$HOME"
  echo ".config/.cfg" >> $HOME/.gitignore
  # e.g. DOTBARE_DIR="$HOME/.config/.cfg" DOTBARE_TREE="$HOME/.config"
  echo ".cfg" >> $HOME/.gitignore

• Define a custom vim command to select dotfiles using fzf.vim

  command! Dots call fzf#run(fzf#wrap({
    \ 'source': 'dotbare ls-files --full-name --directory "${DOTBARE_TREE}" | awk -v home="${DOTBARE_TREE}/" "{print home \$0}"',
    \ 'sink': 'e',
    \ 'options': [ '--multi', '--preview', 'cat {}' ]
    \ }))