My dotfiles

This directory contains the dotfiles for my system

Requirements

• git pacman -S git
• stow pacman -S stow

Installation

1. checkout the dotfiles repo in you $HOME directory using git

git clone https://github.com/AgamjotSB/dotfiles.git
cd dotfiles

2. then use GNU stow to create symlinks

stow .

Notes

• The stow . command places the symlinks in the parent directory of where you run it.
  • for eg .bashrc lives in the top level of my $HOME directory, so it needs to live in the top level of ~/dotfiles/.
• Stow has a list of files and directories it ignores by default here
  • Can create a local stow ignore file .stow-local-ignore (I didn't as of now)
• stow . will throw an error if the file already exists where stow is trying to create a symlink
  • Can move/delete the files OR use stow --adopt . however, the files in dotfiles/ will be overwritten by the conflicting ones.
• Documentation for GNU stow