From 0eae900e5f6c56a4f8ad02d523ed3dfe16578321 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: xengineering <mail2xengineering@protonmail.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2020 17:14:46 +0200
Subject: Add Installation Guide in README.md

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 README.md | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

(limited to 'README.md')

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 63bb8f1..4d0e959 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -3,3 +3,15 @@
 
 A Git repository to track my personal GNU/Linux dotfiles.
 
+## Usage
+
+Install these dotfiles to the current user on a new system like this:
+
+```bash
+    cd ~  # switch to home folder
+    git clone --bare https://github.com/xengineering/dotfiles.git  # clone the bare repository
+    git --git-dir=$HOME/dotfiles.git/ --work-tree=$HOME checkout  # checkout dotfiles to your home 
+                                                                  # (append '-f' to overwrite local ones)
+    logout  # you have to log in again to make the changes take effect
+```
+
-- 
cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2