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Add dotfiles/ for capturing hand-tuned local configs - #63
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Introduce a top-level dotfiles/ directory that mirrors $HOME, plus two idempotent helpers: install.sh (repo -> $HOME, for a rebuild) and capture.sh ($HOME -> repo, to snapshot local tweaks back into git). Seeded with the alacritty config + its ember/aurora theme variants, all of which now pin working_directory so new windows open in $HOME. Copy-based (not symlink) so in-place theme swapping keeps working; existing live files are backed up to ~/.dotfiles-backup/ before any overwrite. Not yet wired into setup-*.sh — manual post-provision step for now. Prompt-Origin: Chris had just had Claude fix alacritty so new windows open in $HOME, then asked for a directory under workstation-bootstrap to start capturing local configs like that one and to push it out. He wanted such configs version-controlled so they survive a rebuild. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Origin
Chris had just had Claude fix alacritty so new windows open in
$HOMEinstead of inheriting the spawning window's directory. He then asked for a
directory under workstation-bootstrap to start capturing local configs like
that one, and to push it out. The goal: keep hand-tuned local configs under
version control so they survive a machine rebuild, rather than re-tuning them
from scratch each time.
What changed
New top-level
dotfiles/directory:home/mirrors$HOME— a file's path underhome/is its path under$HOME. The tree is the manifest; no separate mapping file to drift.install.sh— repo →$HOME. Idempotent; backs up any differingexisting file to
~/.dotfiles-backup/before overwriting. For a freshprovision or to make the repo's configs live.
capture.sh—$HOME→ repo. Refreshes already-tracked files from thelive machine so a local edit becomes a reviewable diff. Only touches files
already tracked — it won't slurp the whole home dir.
README.md— layout, the install/capture workflow, how to add a newconfig, and the copy-vs-symlink rationale.
Seeded with
.config/alacritty/(alacritty.toml+ember/aurorathemevariants), all three now pinning
working_directoryso new windows open in$HOME.Design notes
in-place theme swap (
cp alacritty-aurora.toml alacritty.toml) keepsworking; a symlink would get clobbered.
capture.shis the trade-off foredits not flowing back automatically.
setup-*.sh— manual post-provision step for now;wiring it across all four scripts (per the keep-in-sync rule) is a sensible
follow-up, called out in the README.
Verification
shellcheck --severity=warningclean on both scripts.install.shandcapture.shboth run as idempotent no-ops against theseeded files (
3 unchanged).🤖 Generated with Claude Code