Getting started

Assuming a few things:

• your primary shell is fish
• you mainly use macOS
• you leverage GNU Stow to use symlinks and manage your dotfiles
• you are someone named Linda

Then this is a bespoke dotfile, and you're in a recovery scenario - fun!

These dotfiles take heavy inspiration from this blog post.

# At your home dir
git clone git@github.com:lindatxia/dotfiles.git

# Set up symlinks
brew install stow

# Set up fish
brew install fish

Symlinks, so confusing

Given this directory structure, these are the stow, package and target directories:

/Users/linda
├── .dotfiles
│   ├── fish
│       └── .config
|   	 	└── fish
                     └── config.fish

• /Users/linda/.dotfiles is the stow directory
• /Users/linda/.dotfiles/fish is the package directory. Within the package directory, there is still: .config/fish/config.fish as part of the contents
• /Users/linda is the target directory, in which the above package's content will by synced

Then, when you do

stow fish

this will symlink the package contents to the target directory.