Actions are performed according to structure of dotfiles, .gitignore, ignorefiles, win_src_dest, nixos/configuration.nix and hardware-configuration.nix

• checkHealth.sh shows status of files
• fileBackup.sh create backup to folder $HOME/back/TIMESTAMP_backconfig with timestamp if not symlink
• fileRemove.sh remove regular files, if existing on system
• fileRestore.sh write files, if nonexisting on system, from backup by argument the folder name
• symlinkInstall.sh create symlinks and also create folders with symlinks
• symlinkUninstall.sh remove symlinks
• fileOverwrite.ps1 overwrite configurations based on win_src_dest on Windows
• TODO: usage on NixOS

• readlink to follow symbolic links
• realpath to resolve non-canonical paths provided by fd-find
• fd-find: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd (cargo install fd-find) for convenient ignorelist
  • fd returns relative paths prefixed with ./ to prevent -files from modifying shell behavior
• POSIX-compatible shell
• zig build
  • cross compilation zig build test -Dno_cross o zig
  • mandatory dependencies zig build test -Dno_opt_deps o zig
  • optional dependencies zig build test -Dno_opt_deps o stylua: cargo install stylua --features lua52 o haskell (shellcheck) o llvm-tools (clang-format, clang-tidy) o luacheck

Make sure to place this repository in ${HOME}/dotfiles. If you also like that this can not be checked in POSIX, let them know.

Make sure not to mess up your .bashrc or equivalent of your login shell. Keep a copy of your distro and files around on your first try to restore things.

To set an example for proper handling, we use readlink and realpath. This is a fundamental limitation of any program printing folder and file names, since -filenames are not considered as special. However they can break programs. Example: ls "${filename}" with filename being -k leading to ls -k. See also sharkdp/fd#760 and https://dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html#dashes