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# dotfiles
My personal machine configuration.
The working tree is `$HOME` itself, so this repository *is* the home directory —
each branch targets a specific environment (OS, distribution, desktop), and only the tracked files belong to it.
The bare-repo-in-`$HOME` approach is inspired by [this Atlassian tutorial][0].
The active branch is `kde`: Manjaro Linux, KDE Plasma on Wayland, [foot][1] + [tmux][2], [bash][3], [nvim][4] built from source, [pass][5].
## Layout
The work tree is `$HOME` — there is **no `.git/` in the home directory**, the user chooses where the git dir lives.
Because `$HOME` is full of untracked noise (`Downloads/`, `.cache/`, `Projects/`, …), `status.showUntrackedFiles` is set to `no` so `git status` stays readable; use `git ls-files` to see what is actually tracked.
To bootstrap from scratch:
```bash
git init --bare "$DOTFILES_DIR"
export GIT_DIR="$DOTFILES_DIR" GIT_WORK_TREE="$HOME"
git config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no
git config --local core.bare false
```
Then track files one at a time — `git add ~/.bashrc` — and never `git add -A` (it would try to stage the entire home directory).
## The `dotfiles` helper
`GIT_DIR` and `GIT_WORK_TREE` are deliberately **not** exported at login; only `DOTFILES_DIR` is, via `~/.config/environment.d/50-user.conf`.
`~/.local/bin/dotfiles` is the entry point:
- **`dotfiles on` / `dotfiles off`** copy a `source …` line to the Wayland clipboard
that exports (or unsets) the git variables in the current shell —
a script can't mutate its parent's environment, so you paste the line to toggle one shell.
- **`dotfiles sync`** runs the whole non-interactive setup:
Arch/AUR packages via `yay`, XDG user dirs, Python tools via `pipx`, a from-source Neovim build when a newer release tag is available, Proton VPN, the `keyd` service, and the Claude Code binary.
- **`dotfiles claude-adopt-project`** creates or adopts the Claude store for the current directory and wires its `.claude` symlink (the interactive half of the Claude `Setup` hook).
There is also a dedicated `tmux-dotfiles` launcher (and its `.desktop` entry) that opens a foot/tmux session with the git environment already on.
Its sibling `tmux-notes` opens Neovim on the notes directory (`~/Notes`, via `+NotesOpen`) in a dedicated foot/tmux "Notes" session.
## Stack
- **Shell** — [bash][3]
- **Terminal** — [foot][1] (Wayland)
- **Multiplexer** — [tmux][2]
- **Editor** — [Neovim][4], built from source
- **File browser** — [ranger][6]
- **Password manager** — [pass][5]
- **Keyboard remapping** — [keyd][7]
- **Claude Code** — `claude-config` submodule (`.config/claude`)
## Links
[0]: https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles
[1]: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot#index
[2]: https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki
[3]: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/
[4]: https://neovim.io/
[5]: https://www.passwordstore.org/
[6]: https://ranger.github.io/
[7]: https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd
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