My personal dotfiles

I've moved to using GNU Stow for my personal dotfiles maintenance instead of a bare repository.

How to setup GNU Stow for your dotfiles?

Caution

Backup your files!

Always cd ~/dotfiles dir before any stow command

Automatic setup with shell script

Note

setup option:

This would move your dotfiles to ~/dotfiles It would show preview of changes before applying them

• For .config files: ~/.config/nvim to ~/dotfiles/dot-config/nvim
• For dot files: ~/.vim to ~/dotfiles/dot-vim
• For dot files: ~/.zshrc to ~/dotfiles/dot-zshrc

Note

deploy option:

This would deploy your dotfiles to your home directory It would show preview of changes before applying them

• This using stow to deploy your files.
• Command used for preview: stow -n -v --dotfiles --target="$HOME" .
• Command used for deploy: stow -v --dotfiles --target="$HOME" .

# Make the setup script executable
chmod +x setup.sh

# Run the setup script
./setup.sh --setup

# This would deploy your dotfiles to your home directory
./setup.sh --deploy

# This would initialize git repository in your dotfiles directory
./setup.sh --init-git

Manual Setup

1. Create folder ~/dotfiles
2. initialize git repo

echo "# dotfiles" >> README.md
git init
git add README.md
git commit -m "first commit"
git branch -M main
git remote add origin https://github.com/Cyber-Syntax/dotfiles.git
git push -u origin main

3. Make folder for ~/.config

mkdir -p ~/dotfiles/dot-config/

4. Copy your configs

cp -r ~/.config/nvim ~/dotfiles/dot-config/

5. test stow dry without change anything to make sure about changes correct

cd ~/dotfiles &
stow -n -v --dotfiles --target="$HOME" .

6. If everythings work perfect, stow your files

cd ~/dotfiles &
stow --dotfiles --target="$HOME" .

7. Alias for stow ~/dotfiles/.stowrc:

--dotfiles
--target="$HOME"
--ignore=.stowrc

8. stow files to symlink

cd ~/dotfiles &
stow .