Dotfiles Prerequisites

Optional

jujutsu cmake

Before we can use the dotfiles we need to download them first, duh.

jujutsu

As I’m using jj currently, I personally will use it to clone my dotfiles repository. As jj doesn’t support gitmodules however, I will still need to use git for that until I change this dependency.

Note

You can still use git however, as jj uses git under the hood normally.

Cloning the repository will first be done using its https URL, as using ssh with my Yubikey requires my dotfiles to already be setup. As circular dependencies are a lot of fun _not, I will simply change the remote URL later to use ssh.

jj git clone --colocate https://github.com/DustVoice/dotfiles.git

The only thing left to do is initialize the submodules

Note

As jj has no concepts of git submodules (yet), we can simply use the most recent commit of the modules (--remote).

~/dotfiles

git submodule update --init --remote

Caution

Unfortunately there are open issues with jj, due to its usage of libgit2, which cause problems when behind a proxy, or other unusual network setups. This is a known issue and until there are some decisions made upstream on how to proceed, be it changing libraries, or shelling out to git, bnjmnt4n maintains a fork and proposed a PR, where he switched to OpenSSH, mitigating several of these issues.

It is easily installed using cargo, although you need to actually have it set up (see the Rust chapter for that).

Note that you should have CMake installed.

cargo install --git https://github.com/bnjmnt4n/jj.git --branch ssh-openssh --locked --bin jj jj-cli --features vendored-openssl

Of course you would now also uninstall the jujutsu system package.