Dotfiles

My lovely dotfiles, managed with git bare repository, adhering XDG Base Directory as much as possible.

Content (roughly)

• ZSH config

  • zinit config

• Git config

• Misc config

  • alacritty config
  • bat config
  • tealdeer config
  • k9s config
  • i3 config

• Scripts for provisioning & installation of some packages

Git bare repository setup & usage

• Create a dotfiles folder to track dotfiles

  export XDG_DATA_HOME="$HOME/.local/share"
  git init --bare "$XDG_DATA_HOME/dotfiles"

• Add an alias dotfiles to your .zshrc

  export XDG_DATA_HOME="$HOME/.local/share"
  alias dotfiles="git --git-dir=$XDG_DATA_HOME/dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME"

• Set git status to hide untracked files

  dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

• Add files & commit

  dotfiles status
  
  # add .zshenv
  dotfiles add $HOME/.zshenv
  dotfiles commit -m "feat: add .zshenv"
  
  # add git config
  dotfiles add $HOME/.config/git/*
  dotfiles commit -m "feat: add git config files"
  
  dotfiles remote add origin git@github.com:kirintwn/dotfiles.git
  dotfiles push origin main

Restore dotfiles to a new machine

• Prerequisites:

  • curl
  • wget
  • git
  • svn
  • unzip
  • GnuPG
  • zsh
  • python
  • lua
  • nodejs
  • bat
  • eza
  • fd
  • ripgrep
  • fzf
  • delta

• Installation:

  1. you can install some prerequisites & optional packages via scripts/install-packages/paru.sh if you are using Arch-based distros, or scripts/install-packages/brew.sh if you are using MacOS.

  2. Clone & checkout

     You can use scripts/provisioning/setup.zsh by

     curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kirintwn/dotfiles/main/scripts/provisioning/setup.zsh | zsh

     or clone manually using the commands below:

     export XDG_DATA_HOME="$HOME/.local/share"
     alias dotfiles="git --git-dir=$XDG_DATA_HOME/dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME"
     git clone --bare git@github.com:kirintwn/dotfiles.git "$XDG_DATA_HOME/dotfiles"
     
     # please remove all conflict files in $HOME before running dotfiles checkout
     dotfiles checkout
     dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

  3. Open a new zsh shell, wait zinit provisioning (would take a few minutes).

  4. Create some directories for some program to use XDG base directory, please see scripts/provisioning/setup.zsh as a reference.

Caveats

• Some packages will failed to write config / data if the target directory not exists. Please see comments in .zshenv to provision those directories or run scripts/provisioning/setup.zsh.

• If some environment variables are not loaded in ~/.zshenv, by copying the file using sudo cp ~/.zshenv /etc/zsh/zshenv # (or /etc/zshenv for MacOS) may solve the problem.

References

• [ArchLinux Wiki] XDG Base Directory

• [Atlassian] The best way to store your dotfiles: A bare Git repository

• Zinit Offical Wiki

Original written: @lesley-tw

Edited by: @kirintwn