Hi all!
Recently, I’ve been thinking about how to handle my dotfiles again.
I’ve used chezmoi for a while, and while it’s good, I’ve been wanting something a little lighter.
The simplicity of having my $HOME be a git
repository was
attractive, but I ran into issues. Specifically, many command line tools
I use such as fzf and ripgrep have a feature to automatically ignore
in their search results any files which are ignored by a gitignore.
This meant I had to either turn this feature off (not ideal) or they
wouldn’t work any more. Also, the terminal prompt I use also showed I
was within a git repository all the time, which was annoying.
Does anyone have an wisdom they’d like to share? If I can’t get the
$HOME as a git repository working the way I’d like, I may check out
GNU Stow, which seems to be the next most lightweight option.
Thanks!
Glad to hear that. Hope everything will work out for you. I have already thought about trying Git bare repository myself, but so far I am quite content with just copying dotfiles from my repository directory to
$HOMEmyself. Might give these options a second thought someday soon.