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dotfiles
too many dotfiles
Installation
Use GNU 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"
.
If you're using a shell that does match patterns where *
doesn't match dotfiles by default (bash, zsh) you can just cd
into this repo and stow *
to install everything. You may also want to use *~kde
(using the ~
exclude token) if you want the dotfiles for all the CLI tools but not my desktop environment shit. Or you can just list the shit you want.
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
KDE
Files in ~/.local/share/color-schemes
come from my repo of KDE titlebar color schemes.