From 7de37669575e9b1db8e247e9efff7d5f7fdb726c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oliver Davies Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2023 22:21:44 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] daily-email: add 2023-08-08 8 years of dotfiles --- src/content/daily-email/2023-08-08.md | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/content/daily-email/2023-08-08.md diff --git a/src/content/daily-email/2023-08-08.md b/src/content/daily-email/2023-08-08.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..501291e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/daily-email/2023-08-08.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +--- +title: > + 8 years of dotfiles +pubDate: 2023-08-08 +permalink: > + archive/2023/08/08/8-years-of-dotfiles +tags: + - dotfiles + - open-source +--- + +Today, I was speaking with a colleague about configuring Git, which led to a conversation about dotfiles repositories - somewhere where you version the changes to your configuration files and, usually, create symlinks to their expected locations. + +Afterwards, I realised the first commit to [my personal dotfiles repository](https://github.com/opdavies/dotfiles) was over eight years ago, in July 2015. + +What started as a repository to put my own Git configuration has undergone various changes since the tools I use changed, as well as the tools to manage the files themselves. + +In 2021, I switched my `.vimrc` configuration file to an `init.vim` and switched to Neovim full-time and, most recently, almost a year ago, I started to use the Nix package manager and later adopted NixOS as my primary Linux distribution. + +My complete NixOS and Home Manager configurations are within my `dotfiles` repository, and the configuration for tools, including Neovim, tmux and Git. + +I wonder what the repository will look like in another eight years...