dotfiles

I manage my dotfiles with the help of the GNU Stow package. Bastian Venthur's and Brandon Invergo's articles were of much help when deciding this setup. I previously used a different solution.

Also, dotfiles are meant to be forked.

how are my dotfiles organized

Files are kept within a directory named after the tool they belong to. Inside that directory the target directory structure is mimicked. When specific tags are needed, an additional layer is put in place.

usage

One-line example to remind myself on how to use this setup. From within ~:

stow --no-folding -d ~/dotfiles -S nvim -t ~ -v3

• --no-folding: Stow only the leaves, not the branches. This means that only files will be stowed —directories will be created if they do not exist, but won't be symlinked.
• -d: The stow directory where the package is located at.
• -S: The package to be stowed.
• -t: The target directory. This is usually /home/user in Linux and /Users/user in macOS.
• -v3: Verbosity level 3.