My Dotfiles

My cross-platform dotfiles for Git and Bash. While this setup works perfectly on Linux and Mac, its primary focus is solving the notoriously tricky Windows environment. By pairing GNU Stow with MSYS2, it brings a seamless *NIX-style configuration management experience natively to Windows without relying on WSL.

🛠️ Configured Tools

Currently, this repository includes configurations for:

• Bash (bash/): Custom profiles, path definitions, and environment variables.
• Git (git/): Global configurations, default behaviors, and aliases.

Setup

git clone https://github.com/jishnuteegala/dotfiles.git ~/dotfiles
~/dotfiles/setup.sh   # requires GNU Stow (pacman/brew/apt)

Machine-local overrides

Nothing machine-specific is committed:

• ~/.gitconfig.local - included last by .gitconfig; override signingkey, gpgsign, or credential helpers per machine.
• ~/.agents/ - the private ai-config repo (agent rules, skills, harness config). .bashrc sources it through a single guarded include line, so this repo carries no private content.

🪟 Using Windows?

Want a native *NIX experience on Windows without WSL? Managing dotfiles on Windows using standard Git Bash is notoriously tricky because of how Windows handles symlinks and AppData paths.

I have created a comprehensive guide on how to solve this by pairing MSYS2 with the Git for Windows engine.

👉 Read the Complete Windows / MSYS2 Setup Guide here

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License — see the LICENSE file for details.