Dotfiles with GNU Stow

Managing my dotfiles with GNU Stow

Resources

• Insparation video
• Stow Docs

Requirements

Ensure you have the following installed on your system

Brew

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Git

brew install git

Stow

brew install stow

Installation

First, check out the dotfiles repo in your $HOME directory using git

$ cd $HOME
$ git clone [email protected]:smacintyre/dotfiles-stow.git
$ cd dotfiles

then use GNU stow to create symlinks

$ stow .

Install dependencies with Brew

$ cd $HOME
$ brew bundle

Post install setup:

$ $(brew --prefix)/opt/fzf/install

Adding new files

1. Copy the file into the ~/dotfiles directory matching the same pattern from ~
2. Change to dotfiles: cd ~/dotfiles
3. Run: stow --adopt .

Features

Brew Bundle

For managing installed packages with brew.

See the Homebrew Bundle repo for more details.

See also Brew Bundle Brewfile Tips.