Dotfiles Management with GNU Stow

This repository contains my personal dotfiles, managed using GNU Stow.

Prerequisites

Install GNU Stow using Homebrew:

brew install stow

Adding New Dotfiles

1. Copy your dotfile to the repository:

   cp ~/.zshrc .

2. Backup existing dotfile (recommended):

   mv ~/.zshrc ~/.zshrc.bak

3. List files in dotfiles directory:

   ls -lah

Using Stow

Basic Usage

To create symlinks for all dotfiles:

stow .

Advanced Usage

To adopt existing configuration files:

stow --adopt .

The --adopt flag is useful when you want to move existing configuration files into your dotfiles repository. When you use --adopt:

• It will move the existing target file into your dotfiles directory
• Create the appropriate symlink back to the original location
• This is helpful when you want to add existing configurations to version control without manually copying files

Nix

https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin https://github.com/zhaofengli/nix-homebrew

# Setup
sudo mkdir -p /etc/nix-darwin
sudo chown $(id -nu):$(id -ng) /etc/nix-darwin
cd /etc/nix-darwin

# Configure
nix flake init -t nix-darwin/master --extra-experimental-features "nix-command flakes"

nix run --extra-experimental-features 'nix-command flakes' nix-darwin -- switch --flake .#silvermac

# Verify
which darwin-rebuild

# Rebuild
cd /etc/nix-darwin
darwin-rebuild switch --flake .#silvermac