Felix Nehrke
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I finally made the switch from the bare-repository method to stow to manage my dotfiles. This brings some nice benefits, e.g. I can savely say what file is in my dotfiles and what is missing out. Furthermore the usage is _way_ simpler the before. Though one downside is the more complicated removal of files, but I've documented a way which feels nice to me as well. Finally I removed my old setup-script since I switched to an ansible-setup anyway. So this config will eventually be applied ansible and I don't have to care about installed software in this repo anymore! Reference: https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/ Reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071754 Reference: https://gitea.nehrke.info/nemoinho/dev-machine/
Dotfiles
I use stow to sync my dotfiles between the OS and this repository.
Requirements
Install git and stow if not already present on the system.
Install via apt on Debian/Ubuntu
sudo apt install git stowInstall via brew on macos
brew install git stowUsage
Checkout this repository into ~/dotfiles and apply run stow to sync the dotfiles.
The directory should be loacted directly in the HOME directory.
Otherwise stow needs an additional flat -t $HOME everytime, which is a bit annoying!
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git clone git@gitea.nehrke.info:nemoinho/dotfiles.git ~/dotfiles (1)
cd $_
stow --adopt . (2)
[ -n "$(git status --short)" ] && git restore . (3)| 1 | Clone this repository |
| 2 | Create symlinks for all files managed by this repository, so that the file in the $HOME points to the file in this repository |
| 3 | In case of differences between existing files and the ones from this repository keep the version of the repository |
Removing files
If a file is going to be removed make sure to remove the linked file as well.
Otherwise we end up with a bunch of dangling files in $HOME!
To automatically delete these dangling links we can use a git-hook as the following. That will remove the links pre-commit.
Setup git-hook to automatically remove links to deleted files
cat <<EOF > .git/hooks/pre-commit
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -e
git status --short | grep -E '^D' | sed s/...// | while read f
do
test -L "\$HOME/\$f" && rm "\$HOME/\$f"
done
EOF
chmod +x .git/hooks/pre-commit