dotfiles/README.md

# dotfiles

too many dotfiles

## Installation

Use [GNU Stow][stow] (`apt install stow`, etc.). The repo has a `.stowrc` which
should target your home directory as the installation directory, but in some
cases the `~` may not be evaluated and you'll have to specify
`--target="$HOME"`.

Install the essentials with `stow zsh vim git`.

## Notes

### Git

Most of my git configuration lives in `~/.config/git/personal.gitconfig`, which
is `include`d from `~/.gitconfig`. I do this to separate system-specific
configuration that may be set by automated tools (i.e. the Github CLI setting up
credential managers for guthub.com and gist.github.com) from my personal,
cross-platform configuration (e.g. my identity and aliases).

Keep configuration that should be synced between computers in the
`personal.gitconfig` file, and after cloning the repository, consider telling
Git to ignore local changes to the main `.gitconfig` file:

    git update-index --skip-worktree git/.gitconfig

### zsh

The zsh config has secrets now, because of the prompt username color fetching
thing. You'll probably want to avoid committing your secrets:

    git update-index --skip-worktree zsh/.config/zsh/config.d/00_secrets.zsh

The prompt will still work if you don't fill in anything in that file, it'll
just always be the default color (your terminal's `cyan`).

### KDE

Files in `~/.local/share/color-schemes` come from [my repo of KDE titlebar color
schemes][colors].

[stow]: https://www.gnu.org/software/stow
[colors]: https://github.com/eritbh/kde-application-titlebar-themes