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+# Dotfiles
+This directory is inspired by this https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles blogpost, which in turn was inspired by this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11070797 HN thread
+
+## Setting up this project initially:
+1. git init --bare $HOME/.cfg
+2. alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME' or echo "alias config='usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME'" >> $HOME/.bashrc
+3. config config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no