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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.<\/p>\n\n

Afterwards, I realised the first commit to my personal dotfiles repository<\/a> was over eight years ago, in July 2015.<\/p>\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n

In 2021, I switched my .vimrc<\/code> configuration file to an init.vim<\/code> 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.<\/p>\n\n

My complete NixOS and Home Manager configurations are within my dotfiles<\/code> repository, and the configuration for tools, including Neovim, tmux and Git.<\/p>\n\n

I wonder what the repository will look like in another eight years...<\/p>\n\n ", "format": "full_html", "processed": "\n

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.<\/p>\n\n

Afterwards, I realised the first commit to my personal dotfiles repository<\/a> was over eight years ago, in July 2015.<\/p>\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n

In 2021, I switched my .vimrc<\/code> configuration file to an init.vim<\/code> 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.<\/p>\n\n

My complete NixOS and Home Manager configurations are within my dotfiles<\/code> repository, and the configuration for tools, including Neovim, tmux and Git.<\/p>\n\n

I wonder what the repository will look like in another eight years...<\/p>\n\n ", "summary": null } ], "feeds_item": [ { "imported": "2025-05-11T09:00:34+00:00", "guid": null, "hash": "b663fb9c5e0257d2fdece24454ad3bfd", "target_type": "feeds_feed", "target_uuid": "90c85284-7ca8-4074-9178-97ff8384fe76" } ] }