Henric's Dotfiles

My personal dotfiles managed elegantly and securely with GNU Stow.

What's inside

• zsh: Environment and aliases (.zshrc, .zshenv, .zprofile)
• spaceship: My terminal prompt theme settings
• kitty: GPU-accelerated terminal emulator configuration
• herdr: Terminal workspace manager for AI agents configs
• zed: Ultra-fast code editor settings
• git: Global git configuration and identity

Installation on a new machine

If you (or I in the future) need to set up a new Mac from scratch, follow these steps:

1. Prerequisites

First, ensure git and stow are installed:

# macOS (using Homebrew)
brew install git stow

2. Clone the repository

Clone this repository into your home directory:

git clone https://github.com/Henric234/dotfiles.git ~/dotfiles
cd ~/dotfiles

3. Deploy the dotfiles

Use stow to safely create the symbolic links for all the configurations back into your home folder:

stow zsh
stow spaceship
stow kitty
stow herdr
stow zed
stow git

(Note: Stow will safely refuse to link a file if a real file with the same name already exists in the target location. You may need to delete or backup the default config files first).

Adding new configs in the future

To add a new tool (e.g., nvim) to this dotfiles setup, just follow the Stow pattern:

1. Create the folder structure: mkdir -p ~/dotfiles/nvim/.config/nvim
2. Move the original file: mv ~/.config/nvim/init.lua ~/dotfiles/nvim/.config/nvim/
3. Stow it: cd ~/dotfiles && stow nvim
4. Git push: git add . && git commit -m "docs: add nvim" && git push