What is this?

This is Rolando Garza's personal repository of public configuration files and utility scripts for the programs he uses on an almost daily basis.

But,... why?

The intent of sharing this publicly is that these files may hopefully be of some use to others.

TL;DR?

This repository is meant to be cloned inside ~/.local/share/dotfiles/pub/, and from that directory, package's dotfiles are meant to be installed by running stow PACKAGE inside that subdirectory (using GNU Stow).

Downloading dotfiles

This repository is meant to be cloned inside ~/.local/share/dotfiles/pub/:

git clone https://git.sr.ht/~rolandog/dotpub ~/.local/share/dotfiles/pub
cd ~/.local/share/dotfiles/pub

Installing dotfiles

A quick way to install all the dotfiles is by running (the SHELL part is optional, but allows for the use of colors in the output):

make install SHELL=/usr/bin/bash

If, however, one wishes to only install a particular set of dotfiles for a particular PACKAGE, one could run:

stow PACKAGE

What dotfiles are installed?

GNU Stow is a handy utility that lets us package a directory structure inside a folder, and it will create symbolic links to the files and folders inside our virtual package.

In our case, this directory ($HOME/.dotfiles/.pub/) is configured to have stow treat it as the source, and to treat $HOME as its target.

For a given PACKAGE:

• The file ~/.local/share/dotfiles/pub/PACKAGE/.config/hello/world
• Will end in ~/.config/hello/world

Here is an overview of the 'branches' that will be 'transplanted'.

/home/rolandog/.local/share/dotfiles/pub
|-- applications/
|   `-- .local/
|       `-- share/
|-- bash/
|   `-- .config/
|       `-- bash/
|-- emacs/
|   `-- .config/
|       `-- emacs/
|-- firewall/
|   `-- .local/
|       `-- bin/
|-- gpg/
|   `-- .gnupg/
|-- htop/
|   `-- .config/
|       `-- htop/
|-- lynx/
|-- make/
|-- org/
|   `-- .local/
|       `-- share/
|-- pandoc/
|   `-- .local/
|       `-- share/
|-- python/
|   `-- .config/
|       `-- python/
|-- stow/
|-- user-dirs/
|   `-- .config/
|-- vim/
|   `-- .config/
|       `-- vim/
`-- youtube-dl/
    `-- .config/
        `-- youtube-dl/

Pushing local changes

The first time we want to push additional changes back:

git remote add origin [email protected]:~rolandog/dotpub
git push --set-upstream origin main

Online resources

Programmer's dotfiles

• https://github.com/podiki/dot.me
• https://github.com/kalkayan/dotfiles
• https://github.com/gfarrell/dotfiles

Online discussions or tutorials

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071754
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11070797
• https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles