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date: 2025-07-12
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title: My dotfiles repository turns 10
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permalink: /daily/2025/07/12/my-dotfiles-repository-turns-10
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Earlier this month, my dotfiles repository turned 10 years old.
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[The first commit][0] was a small one - committing my Git configuration file (`.gitconfig`).
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Next, I added an initial `.vimrc`, although I wasn't [using Vim full-time][1] yet.
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It was when I started to use Linux more, though.
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My dotfiles repository has gone through several iterations since the first commits, from using simple bash scripts to tools like Ansible and GNU Stow to apply the configuration.
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Three years ago, I started to use Nix and NixOS, and started to use Home Manager to create and manage my user configuration.
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Now called my "nix-config" repository, it contains much more than my Git configuration - it manages several laptops and my home server, and includes a number of [custom packages and scripts][2].
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I also use Nix to build other things, like my [presentation slides as PDF files][3].
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I don't plan to move from my existing tools like NixOS, tmux and Neovim, but I do wonder what my dotfiles repository will look like in ten years from now.
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[0]: https://code.oliverdavies.uk/opdavies/nix-config/commit/da6754da407b01c3966747c49ed84228c30eb701
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[1]: /blog/going-full-vim
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[2]: /daily/2025/07/08/writing-robust-bash-scripts-nix
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[3]: /daily/2025/04/07/nix-rst2pdf
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