added dotfiles init script (so you can make your own repo!)

.local/bin/dotfiles-init.sh

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+#!/bin/sh
+# this will setup a bare git repo for managing dotfiles. You should only run this script once per set of dotfiles.
+# credit for this idea and basic script outline goes to: https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles
+
+set -e
+
+# name the path to the dotfiles repo
+DOTFILES_REPO_DIR="$HOME/git/dotfiles"
+
+# Some colors to spice things up
+ Cyan="$( tput setaf 6 )"
+Green="$( tput setaf 2 )"
+   NC="$( tput sgr0 )" # No Color
+
+# check for the git command and exit if it doesn't exist
+if ! command -v git > /dev/null;then
+   echo 'git is not installed or could not be found in $PATH, please install git to proceed'
+   exit 1
+fi
+
+# an "alias" for the git command for use by the script
+dot() {
+   git --git-dir="$DOTFILES_REPO_DIR" --work-tree="$HOME" "$@"
+}
+
+
+mkdir -p "$DOTFILES_REPO_DIR"
+if git init --bare "$DOTFILES_REPO_DIR" > /dev/null 2>&1; then 
+   echo "A bare git repository has been initialized at $DOTFILES_REPO_DIR" 
+   echo
+else
+   echo 'git repository initialization failed'
+   exit
+fi
+dot config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no
+echo "Please add this alias to your shell's init script:"
+# looks like this: alias dot="git --git-dir="/path/to/repo" --work-tree=\"$HOME\""
+echo "  ${Cyan}alias dot=${Green}\"git --git-dir=\"$DOTFILES_REPO_DIR\" --work-tree=\\\"\$HOME\\\"\"${NC}"
+echo "Then, you can use the command '${Cyan}dot ${Green}add <file>${NC}' to add a given file to the repo"
+