Some of my local configuration files

mkdir dotfiles_backup
mv .bash_profile .gitconfig .gitignore_global .gvimrc .inputrc .vimrc README.md ./dotfiles_backup/

cd ~
git init .
git remote add origin https://github.com/davur/dotfiles.git
git pull origin master

This repo is intended to live in the user's root directory. A ignore-all * .gitignore file is added to reduce git status noise.

So to track a new dotfile in this repo, use git add --force FILENAME.