Introduction

My dotfiles, managed by git and GNU Stow.

This article explains the idea:

• http://brandon.invergo.net/news/2012-05-26-using-gnu-stow-to-manage-your-dotfiles.html

An alternative method could be to use the homegit aliases from this article:

• http://chneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2013/01/a-grab-bag-of-git-tricks.html

Setup

To configure stow to push file to the user home directory:

cat <<EOF > .stowrc
--target=$HOME
EOF

Then you can enable configuration files using stow <package>.

Enable all with stow *.

Some packages require configuration before stowing, these are listed below.

git setup

To use different names for work and home, the git configuration includes ~/.gitconfig.local. This was done using:

git config --global include.path '~/.gitconfig.local'

To customize local settings, one can use git config --file ~/.gitconfig.local, e.g:

git config --file ~/.gitconfig.local user.name "Firstname Lastname"
git config --file ~/.gitconfig.local user.email "firstname.lastname@company.com"

See also:

• http://agateau.com/2015/splitting-your-gitconfig/