Personal dotfiles

Everything here is provided "as is" under an MIT license, without warranty of any kind.

Usage notes

• assumes a GNU/Linux-style userland
• home/ contains files to be installed into the user home directory, separating them from things needed to maintain the repository, e.g. for Visual Studio Code configuration:
  • home/.config/Code/User/ contains the files to install into ~/.config/Code/User/
  • .vscode/ contains files specific to working in the dotfiles repository workspace
• install.sh sets up the home directory
  • rather than symlink entire directories, individual files are symlinked after creating their directories, allowing finer control over which files are kept in version control
  • for better ergonomics, bin scripts are symlinked without their extension; additionally, Python scripts are symlinked in kebab case (which is easier to type) rather than the in-repository snake case (which is importable)
• many environments ship their own ~/.bashrc with environment-specific items and interoperability with those setups is done by not including home/.bashrc here but rather relying on the fact that most ~/.bashrc files will source ~/.bash_aliases if it exists, which is included here; the install.sh setup script can make minor tweaks to environment-provided ~/.bashrc files
• some items assume the presence of other things (e.g. a script might assume that certain .gitconfig aliases are configured or that another script can be called using its installed name), so partial installs might not work without also handling dependencies

References

• Awesome dotfiles and GitHub does dotfiles have various tips for dotfiles repositories, like alternatives to a bespoke install.sh
• Personalizing Codespaces for your account explains how GitHub handles dotfiles repositories