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How do you manage your dotfiles?
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I've done symlinks into a separate directory before, but by far my favorite method is to just let
~be a git repo. It's maximally simple, no other tooling needed besidesgit.There are a few key steps to making this work well:
echo '*' > ~/.gitignore: This waygit statusisn't full of untracked files. I can stillgit add -fwhat I actually want to track.git branch -m dots: For clarity in my shell prompt.[ -d "$HOME/.local/$(hostname)/bin" ] && PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/$(hostname)/binand similar if there's config I want to apply only to certain hosts.Pretty happy with nixos these days, after the initial (crazy) learning curve. But I really like the creative simplicity of this idea
~~Stole~~ Forked this idea from Drew Devault.
I'm looking at NixOS now for my server, and while I understand the host config, I'm curious whether I could integrate this into my config in some way.