Re:How I configure my Git identities
by SpaceNugget on Monday November 25, 2024 @06:14AM
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That certainly looks less trivial than writing it directly in your .gitconfig file.
It's the same condition and setting as what's in the article, but now with a build/templating stage and a new programming language to learn with unusual syntax.
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While I don't use NixOS or home-manager, I would imagine this provides some extra value: i.e. config is versioned or easy to move between machines.
Curiosity got the better of me so I looked it up at https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/ and it indeed does purport to provide benefits I guessed at and then some.
Whether that's better than just manually managing things yourself is altogether a different matter.
Agree on your comment re build/templating and new language. Nix is weird and NixOS is complicated. Nonetheless I have convinced myself that I like it.
In TFA the author must set up two configurations: the .gitconfig, and the file which is included in the .gitconfig. Home-manager does this automatically through one config parameter. That is what I was pleased with and wanted to share.