My dotfiles

I use these dotfiles to keep my Linux experience uniform across machines.

The project is heavily inspired by holman's dotfiles, that are far more comprehensive. Go check them out.

The install script is in python, that I find far more readable than bash.

Structure

The repo is split in topics.

Anything with a .symlink extension will be symlinked in the home folder. Both folders and files can be linked.

Anything with a .bash extension will be sourced by ~/.bash_aliases, that is generated automatically by the script. The actual bash_aliases file is in bash/bash_aliases.bash

• topic.symlink/: symlink the folder (e.g. vim.symlink to ~/.vim)
• topic/*.symlink: symlink the file (e.g. tmux/tmux.conf.symlink to ~/.tmux.conf)
• topic/*.bash: source the file in the auto-generated ~/.bash_aliases

Local personalizations

Aliases that are private or machine specific can be put in ~/.bash_aliases.local, that is sourced automatically. Notice that it is sourced first, before the symlinked files. If additional aliases need to be set after sourcing all the others, write them in ~/.bash_aliases.after.local, that is sourced last.

Private git configs can be put in ~/.gitconfig.local, that is included by git/gitconfig.symlink.

Additional vim settings can be saved in ~/.vimrc.local, that is sourced at the end of vim.symlink/vimrc

install.py

Runs with python, version >=3.6.

Install everything with

python3 install.py

The backup directory name can be set with the option --backup_dir, the default is .rcback, so the old configuration will be backed up in ~/.rcbackNN, and NN is automatically chosen to produce an unique dirname.