How do I store my own config in source control?

[tonekk]

Hi,

first off: Nice project, love it :)

From what I understand, I should not create a fork to configure my own version of NvChad.
What I don't understand though, is how should I keep my own config in my github so that the setup is a oneliner? Any ideas?

EDIT: My current solution is to use a fork and add the lua/custom folder as a submodule. This shouldn't cause conflicts, since lua/custom is in the .gitignore file. So I just have to sync the fork before calling NvChadUpdate. This is surely not how it was intended, but it works well with my current dotfiles setup:
https://github.com/tonekk/nvim/tree/main/lua

[siduck]

@tonekk for the time being i just put the custom dir to my dotfiles repo. soon @LeonHeidelbach is going to improve our snapshot feature so you can store your whole nvchad config ( default config + custom config + all plugins code ) into a single minified file so its easy to rollback to your preferred snapshot i.e for stability and then you can save that snapshot file in git etc, its portable

[siduck]

@ben-xD nvchad custom config reloads when you save any file in custom dir. Why would you want to reload the config if you dont have any changes?

[ben-xD]

I do technically make "changes" when I run ln -s (symlink) files from my dotfiles repo. Neovim/NvChad doesn't know about the new, symlinked config.

[siduck]

@ben-xD i tried it here and saving the file for example ~/dotfiles/nvchad_custom , it reloads . Idk why it doesnt work for u!

btw do know that nvchad stuff only reloads when you write the files with nvim

[ben-xD]

Saving the file in nvim works for me too. But when I use an existing config from another machine (for example, after cloning a dotfiles repo and symlinking the custom folder), nvim doesn't yet notice the old config file is gone, and the new one is symlinked.

[siduck]

check the autocmd in core/init.lua, its used for reloading stuff

just copy that and make a custom function and then use nvim --headless to call it

[saumyajyoti]

I keep Custom folder in my own repo and then symlink it to NVChad/lua folder.

[danielo515]

You can also use chezmoi. It is a manager that keeps your dotfiles separated from their final location and it just copies them to the destination when needed.