points/.README.md

Bare Git Repository

• https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles
• StreakyCobra

Starting from scratch

git init --bare $HOME/.dotfiles
alias dotfiles='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles --work-tree=$HOME'
dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

Install onto a new system

The checkout command is expected to fail with a message. This is because your $HOME folder might already have some stock configuration files which would be overwritten by Git. The “BKDIR” part is a rough shortcut to move all the offending files automatically to a backup folder:

git clone --bare <git-repo-url> $HOME/.dotfiles

alias dotfiles='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles --work-tree=$HOME'

dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

BKDIR=".dotfiles-backup/";
dotfiles checkout 2>&1 | egrep "\s+" | awk {'print $1'} |
  xargs -I{} sh -c "mkdir -p \$(dirname ${BKDIR}{}); mv -iv {} ${BKDIR}{}";

dotfiles checkout

Install into /etc/skel

sudo mkdir -p /etc/skel/.dotfiles
sudo chown $(whoami) /etc/skel

git clone --bare $(dotfiles remote -v | head -1 | cut -f2 | cut -f1 -d' ') /etc/skel/.dotfiles

alias skelfiles='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=/etc/skel/.dotfiles --work-tree=/etc/skel'
skelfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no
skelfiles checkout

Useful Commands

• List all tracked files (from CWD):
  dotfiles ls-tree --name-only -rz main | xargs -0 $(whence lsd) -lU

Other Tools

lazygit --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles --work-tree=$HOME

Install remotes as subtree

• https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/git-subtree
• Create an alias for remote repository
  • dotfiles remote add <remote-name> <URL>
• Import remote as a single commit (squashed)
  • `dotfiles subtree add --prefix --squash
  • Note 1: Must be called from $HOME
  • Note 2: Do not start with $HOME or ~

Install recent versions of applications

Generic Tips

Github Patches

From stackoverflow.

wget https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit/pull/2604.patch
git apply --stat --apply 2604.patch

Fonts

• How to install and manage fonts on Linux

  • mv folder ~/.fonts
  • fc-cache -fv ~/.fonts

• JetBrains Mono

  • Install the files without “NL” (i.e No Ligatures) in their names

• Nerd Fonts

  • Download
    • NerdFontsSymbolsOnly.tar.xz
  • Cheat Sheet
  • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/master/bin/scripts/test-fonts.sh

kitty

• https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/binary/
• Install JetBrains Mono (without NF) & NerdFontsSymbolsOnly fonts.
  • Note: outside of kitty, it may be interesting to also install JetBrains Mono with NF.

sudo apt-get install kitty-terminfo
(kitty --version && curl https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/changelog/ | html2text) | less
sh ~/.config/kitty/installer.sh

Note: Kitty prepends its bin folder to the path. So it is more coherent/simpler to copy this behaviour into Zsh.

lazygit

sudo apt install git-delta

Binary Releases

LOCATION=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/jesseduffield/lazygit/releases/latest \
  | grep "browser_download_url.*Linux_x86_64" \
  | awk '{ print $2 }' \
  | sed 's/,$//'       \
  | sed 's/"//g')
echo $LOCATION
wget $LOCATION
tar xf *.tar.gz(om[1])

Go

go install github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit@latest

Manual

mkdir -p $HOME/dev_3rd/golang
cd $HOME/dev_3rd/golang

git clone https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit.git
cd lazygit
go install

neovim

sudo apt install libfuse2 xsel

mkdir -p $HOME/.local/bin
cd $HOME/.local/bin

curl -LO https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases/download/nightly/nvim.appimage
chmod u+x nvim.appimage
ln -sf nvim.appimage nvim
ln -sf nvim.appimage vi

cd $HOME
nvim --version
vi --version