dotfiles

My personal configuration files, tracked with a bare git repository.

What's tracked

• Firefox
• Fish
• Git
• Hyprland
• mpv
• VSCodium
• Zed

Installation

Clone the repository and check out the files:

Warning

This will overwrite any existing configs that conflict with the ones tracked here.

git clone --bare https://github.com/time-slayer/dotfiles ~/.dotfiles
git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles --work-tree=$HOME checkout -f

Usage

This repo's git directory lives at ~/.dotfiles, and its work-tree is $HOME itself. That means the files here are checked out at their real, normal paths (e.g. ~/.config/fish, ~/.gitconfig).

To manage it, I use a shell alias instead of plain git:

alias dotgit="git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles --work-tree=$HOME"

And use dotgit exactly like git:

dotgit status
dotgit add .config/hypr
dotgit commit -m "tweak hyprland"
dotgit push

I also hide untracked files from dotgit status so it doesn't get noisy with the rest of my home directory:

dotgit config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

Specific configurations

Firefox

Firefox normally stores configuration in a randomly generated profile folder, which isn't a stable path to track in git. To work around this, a dedicated profile is created at a permanent, tracked location: ~/.config/mozilla/firefox/dotfiles.

To set this up:

1. Open Firefox and go to about:profiles.
2. Click Create a New Profile -> Next, and name it.
3. Click Choose Folder... and select the tracked directory: ~/.config/mozilla/firefox/dotfiles.
4. Finish the wizard, then click Set as default profile under the new profile.
5. Restart Firefox.

VSCodium extensions

Extensions are managed via a custom ext.sh script located at .config/vscodium-extensions/ext.sh:

cd ~/.config/vscodium-extensions

# install extension list
./ext.sh i

# export installed extensions
./ext.sh e