My Dotfiles

Fish, starship, and git config for Arch and for Windows under msys2, in one branch. install.sh works out which OS it is on and installs the right pieces.

The prompt is a green-phosphor terminal theme: three shades of green for normal state, amber for anything that needs attention, red when a command fails.

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Install

git clone https://github.com/AW-Koi/dotfiles.git ~/dotfiles
~/dotfiles/install.sh

Same two lines on Arch and in Git Bash on Windows. Pass --dry-run first to see what it would touch without writing anything. Any file it replaces is copied to *.backup alongside the original, and re-running it only touches what actually differs.

On Arch and macOS it symlinks, so editing a file in the repo takes effect immediately. On Windows it copies, because symlinks need admin rights or Developer Mode and Git Bash quietly produces a copy rather than failing. The script probes for this rather than assuming, and prints which mode it chose.

Structure

dotfiles/
├── install.sh                              # installs for the current OS
├── git/shared.gitconfig                    # git settings, included not copied
├── shared/                                 # both OSes
│   ├── .bashrc
│   └── .config/
│       ├── starship.toml                   # prompt theme
│       └── fish/
│           ├── config.fish                 # greeting off, starship init, aliases
│           └── functions/fish_title.fish   # terminal tab text
├── linux/                                  # Arch only
│   ├── .Xresources
│   └── .config/{hypr,waybar,kitty}/
└── windows/terminal/                       # tab icon + its generator

Each of shared/ and linux/ mirrors $HOME, so stow shared linux still works on Arch if you prefer it to install.sh.

To add a config, drop it under shared/, linux/, or windows/ mirroring where it lives in $HOME, then re-run install.sh. Machine-local state stays out of git: fish_variables and *.backup are ignored, and install.sh never copies a .gitignore into a live config dir.

Git config

install.sh adds one include.path line to ~/.gitconfig pointing at git/shared.gitconfig, rather than installing a file over the top of it. Shared settings (identity, init.defaultBranch = main, push.autoSetupRemote) come from the repo, and anything machine-local (safe.directory entries, credential helpers) stays in ~/.gitconfig where it belongs. Git expands ~ in include.path on every platform, so the same line works in both places.

Docs

• Reading the prompt: what each label and colour means, and the font constraint that decides which glyphs it can use.
• Fish on Windows: why fish may ignore ~/.config/fish, and the STARSHIP_CONFIG and line-ending traps that come with it.
• Windows Terminal: tab title and tab icon.