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I found this brilliant way to manage your dotfiles in an old hn comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071754 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1107

I found this brilliant way to manage your dotfiles in an old hn comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071754 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071754 <quote> I use: git init --bare $HOME/.myconf alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.myconf/ --work-tree=$HOME' config config status.showUntrackedFiles no where my ~/.myconf directory is a git bare repository. Then any file within the home folder can be versioned with normal commands like: config status config add .vimrc config commit -m "Add vimrc" config add .config/redshift.conf config commit -m "Add redshift config" config push And so one… No extra tooling, no symlinks, files are tracked on a version control system, you can use different branches for different computers, you can replicate you configuration easily on new installation. </quote>

danieldk 8y ago
No extra tooling, no symlinks, files are tracked on a version control system, you can use different branches for different computers, you can replicate you configuration easily on new installation. But synchronizing shared configuration is clunky (you have to cherry pick commits between branches I guess). I use NixOS and Nix on my MacBook, which allows you to store and version your whole system configuration. I have factored out different parts of my configuration (emacs, zsh, etc.) in different .nix files. So, I just have one file per machine where I import the relevant configurations and specify the packages that I want to have available. E.g. this is my user configuration on NixOS: https://github.com/danieldk/nix-home/blob/master/machines/mindbender.nix https://github.com/danieldk/nix-home/blob/master/machines/mi... and macOS: https://github.com/danieldk/nix-home/blob/master/machines/macbook.nix https://github.com/danieldk/nix-home/blob/master/machines/ma...
- eiginn 8y ago
  Thanks for sharing those, I had kind of written off Nix for personal laptop after first glance, going to play around again.
peatmoss 8y ago
This is brilliant! I think I'm about to go and replace some make-based infrastructure as a result.

danieldk 8y ago

No extra tooling, no symlinks, files are tracked on a version control system, you can use different branches for different computers, you can replicate you configuration easily on new installation. But synchronizing shared configuration is clunky (you have to cherry pick commits between branches I guess). I use NixOS and Nix on my MacBook, which allows you to store and version your whole system configuration. I have factored out different parts of my configuration (emacs, zsh, etc.) in different .nix files. So, I just have one file per machine where I import the relevant configurations and specify the packages that I want to have available. E.g. this is my user configuration on NixOS: https://github.com/danieldk/nix-home/blob/master/machines/mindbender.nix https://github.com/danieldk/nix-home/blob/master/machines/mi... and macOS: https://github.com/danieldk/nix-home/blob/master/machines/macbook.nix https://github.com/danieldk/nix-home/blob/master/machines/ma...

eiginn 8y ago
Thanks for sharing those, I had kind of written off Nix for personal laptop after first glance, going to play around again.

peatmoss 8y ago

This is brilliant! I think I'm about to go and replace some make-based infrastructure as a result.