cc250080 / dotfiles

Repository that keeps my home and nixOS configs

Introduction

This repository keeps my dotfiles and NixOS config.

How to use this repo as for Home dotfiles

The key to making this work is a one-byte .gitignore file:

*

With this line, and git will ignore all of the files in my $HOME directory, so I needn’t worry about leaving personal files, music, videos, other git repositories, and so on, in my public dotfiles repo. But, in order to track anything at all, we need to override the gitignore file on a case-by-case basis with git add -f, or --force. To add my vimrc, I used the following command:

git add -f .vimrc

Then I can commit and push normally, and .vimrc is tracked by git. The gitignore file does not apply to any files which are already being tracked by git, so any future changes to my vimrc show up in git status, git diff, etc, and can be easilly committed with git commit -a, or added to the staging area normally with git add — using -f is no longer necessary. Setting up a new machine is quite easy. After the installation, I run the following commands:

cd ~
git init
git remote add origin [e-mail]:cc250080/dotfiles.git
git fetch
git checkout -f main

However, not all of my computers are configured equally. Some run different Linux distributions, or have different concerns being desktops, servers, laptops, etc. It’s often useful for this reason to be able to customize my configuration for each host. For example, before $HOME/bin in my $PATH, I have $HOME/bin/$(hostname). To customize my sway configuration to consider the different device configurations of each host, I use the following directive in ~/.config/sway/config:

include ~/.config/sway/`hostname`

The same strategy is used for i3