Manage Your Dotfiles Like A Superhero

[@poodapoorc]

I just stumbled upon your blog post on stow. It was super clear to read through and you've saved me a lot of time and researching to figure out a better way to set up my environment. I had a dotfiles repo and was not looking forward to copying or symlinking everything in there. Thanks so much for spreading the word on this awesome tool and providing instructions to get going quickly!

[@jameswinston5369]

This was all sorts of awesome. Total game-changer. Thank you!

[@tillw9730]

Instead of creating the nested .config structure, I simply used stow nvim --target=

[@arashitempesta]

thanks for the tip!

[@bertmeijeringh9559]

Thanks Jake. Awesome contribution. I'll stow my .dot-files right away. Keep up the good work!

[@DanielTubul]

Great explanations - so good I had to use the comment feature which i normally chose not to.

[@marcossantos1998]

thank you so much for doing this step by step, very helpful to beginners

[@HuzMS]

Thank you for the blog post it was helpful

[@jakewies]

New drinking game! Drink everytime I say "directory" 😅

[@RodrigoStuchi]

Very cool content, I'll give a shot to stow. Tks

[@jakewies]

Awesome!

[@duncan-mcrae]

Thanks. Best video for stow

[@smilin_dominator]

Thanks a lot for the amazing tutorial!

[@Or1g3nn]

Is there an easy way to know which files are automatically generated and therefore should be ignored?

[@sachak7001]

Hey, just followed your guide. Thanks, just set it up for me. How did you move lines up and down in Neovim?

[@jakewies]

Hey Sacha. I usually just cut a line with "D" and paste it where i want with "o" and "p". The former pastes a line above, the latter pastes a line below. There's probably more efficient ways but i haven't found myself looking for them yet.

[@JalukOne]

Thanks ! great job

[@coderzio]

Jee-en-you 😂

[@soymichelo75]

awesome series jake :D just one question: if you intend to also take with you your p10k prompt configuration, should you also take any dotfile? or where does that config "live"? (I checked your GH and didn't see anything. I am a bit maniac about the prompt O:-)

[@vikingthedude]

I use p10k and the dotfile i use is at ~/.p10k.zsh I haven't watched the whole video though so I'm not sure if this was answered already

[@joelpittet5957]

Great video, seems lots of videos and blogs of using stow 'packages' but in a bit of testing you can make your dotfiles repo the 'package' and do `stow .`. Any down side to that approach? I found it saved me from needing to reorganize my existing dotfiles in folders and only one stow command call though maybe I'm missing something from the need for that organization.

[@vanadium4167]

That organization in different packages may indeed be less essential. You also could manage all of your dot files in a single package. In other use cases, it may be essential, e.g. when used for "stowing" files from manually compiled and installed programs, which may come with many files. Unstowing and deleting the package directory then uninstalls the application at once.

[@chillydoog]

bless you

[@amit12000]

why dont we not use bare repository and alias method which simple can u provide reason and advantage over bare repository and alias method

[@jakewies]

Bare repositories work fine. This way makes sense for me.

[@Slate245Ivanovo]

Just a thought: if you intent to clone .dotfiles folder into a new machine and then run install.sh, why do you install git as a part of a setup? It seems to me that you rely on it in the first place)

[@jakewies]

Great question. Someone asked this on another video in the series. Here was my response: "This is a great point that I failed to identify myself. It looks like git is pre-installed on both Linux and MacOS machines, however I'm not sure what version it will be. I can certainly run a test. So on one hand, yes, it's a little redundant to install git again. But on the other, installing with nix means git will be placed in a deterministic location on your machine similar to other packages, and updating should be easy through nix as well. But I really do want to test this out and see how it works in theory. I have a thought that maybe the nix version is never being used! lol Thanks for the heads up!"

[@soymichelo75]

hello Ivan, technically speaking, you can also download the files as such and unzip them (rudimentary, but would work)

[@pranavrk2622]

I played the game. Now I'm too drunk to remember who I am.

[@jakewies]

I hate when that happens

[@LibreGlider]

Ga Nu, or Ga New. Dont keep saying G.N.U. It's a recursive acronym for GNU is Not Unix...