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Dotfiles Management

Overview

  • The dotfiles are managed using GNU Stow. The idea is simple:
    • For each folder, store/restore the config that's in that respective folder.
    • Reason for having separate folders is that I can restore only the things I want rather than restoring all of them.
    • Again, why, because 2 main reasons: a. My home and my office PC contains may contain different setups. So I make it generic rather than specialized to one setup. If not, then my home config will all over the place in my office config OR vice-versa, which I don't want. b. Say, today my office uses Linux (thankfully, because I love Linux), but let's say I switch to some another organization, which uses Windows, so all my linux config may not work.

How does it work ?

  • The bash related dotfiles, (.bashrc, .bash_aliases, etc..) are stored in a folder called 'bash'. So when setting up a new machine and assuming the 'Dotfiles' folder is cloned in $HOME directory, then doing a simple: stow bash, will restore/add the files in proper places in the $HOME directory.

Steps to restore:

  • Pre-requisite: Install GNU Stow
sudo apt install stow # This is for ubuntu. Check stow docs for how to install for other platforms
  • Clone the repo:
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/aniketgm/Dotfiles.git
  • Goto inside the Dotfiles and restore whatever you want:
cd Dotfiles
stow bash

  • This will restore bash files in the $HOME directory.

  • Similarly, doing stow <folder_name_inside_Dotfiles>, will restore other respective configs.

  • NOTE: The bashrc file contains an entry at the end for zoxide and starship. So you may want to install that first before using the config.