lucasloisp / dotfiles

Quick how-to

• 🚀 stow <directory> is enough add the desired configuration to your system.
• ⛔ stow will warn you before breaking anything (if you have dotfiles for that program already).
• 🔐 filename.local files are placeholders for filename files, that are not tracked.

Install

1. Clone the repo.
2. Set-up stow with stow -t ~ stow, so it is easier to use.
3. Install whatever module you want by doing stow <directory>.
   • Check if there are any *.local files in there and set those up before you stow.

Dotfiles can be refreshed by running stow <directory> again, if any files are added to the repo and need to be symlinked.

How these are organized

The dotfiles are organized per program, each folder following a structure with $HOME as root. This is done so that stow is easy to use to set them up.

Stow

stow is a super awesome to manage symlinks. Well suited for managing dotfiles because of that. Just read the docs.