dotfiles

These are my collection of dotfiles. I switched to using nixos and decided to properly track my config files in git.

Currently my setup is not fully managed by nixos. When I switch to home-manager this will be completed fully.

To run this configuration you will need to install home-manager and add the channels for nixos-hardware:

sudo nix-channel --add https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware/archive/master.tar.gz nixos-hardware
sudo nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-unstable nixos-unstable
sudo nix-channel --update

Create your own

To create this type of configuration for yourself, use git to create your initial repository.

git init --bare $HOME/.dotfiles

Then create an alias (and also add it to your shell config) to work with this repository.

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

Make sure that the repository does not show untracked files, otherwise you will always get to see all your home folder files.

dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

You can then use the dotfiles command as if it is git.

Restore on another computer

Make sure git is available in the shell.

nix-shell -p git

Create the dotfiles alias.

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

Clone the configuration repository to this machine into the .dotfiles directory.

git clone --bare https://github.com/credmp/nixos-dotfiles.git $HOME/.dotfiles

Then checkout the files, this will take them from the cloned repository to the required places, such as ~/.config/home-manager/home.nix.

dotfiles checkout

Install home-manager, matching the current release version. I use the channels method as an installation mechanism.

sudo nix-channel --add https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/archive/release-24.05.tar.gz home-manager
sudo nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-unstable nixos-unstable

Update the channels, so that all the indexes are up to date.

sudo nix-channel --update

Then install using nix-shell.

sudo nix-shell '<home-manager>' -A install

finally, run home-manager switch to get the environment up and running.

home-manager switch

The base configuration of my system is in the shared.nix file. From your configuration.nix import it, and then run sudo nixos-rebuild switch. Make sure you remove duplicate lines from your original configuration.nix file.

Stackstorage

The stackstorage daemon is manually downloaded from the support site as an AppImage and placed in ~/.local/bin.