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8 years of dotfiles
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pubDate: 2023-08-08
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permalink: >-
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archive/2023/08/08/8-years-of-dotfiles
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tags:
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- dotfiles
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- open-source
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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.
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Afterwards, I realised the first commit to [my personal dotfiles repository](https://github.com/opdavies/dotfiles) was over eight years ago, in July 2015.
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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.
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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.
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My complete NixOS and Home Manager configurations are within my `dotfiles` repository, and the configuration for tools, including Neovim, tmux and Git.
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I wonder what the repository will look like in another eight years...
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