Idiomatic way to version control (dotfiling) doom configs?

[starptr]

Since ~/.config/doom-nvim/ is a git repo with this github repo as the remote, it's not trivial to add the doomrc.lua, doom_config.lua, and plugins.lua files to a dotfiles manager like yadm.

Is there a recommended way to do this? I was thinking that maybe one could fork the repo & add the fork as a submodule to yadm, but that's not a very clean solution (updates won't work without syncing the fork) (and for me personally I'd rather avoid submodules).

[kaii-zen]

Doom Emacs does this by keeping itself in ~/.config/emacs and loading the user config from ~/.config/doom which the user can decide whether they want to version control or not...

[starptr]

Right. It would be awesome if doom nvim can also implement a similar config structure such that doom itself and user configs are located separately, so that dotfile managers can play nicely with the user configs :)

[NTBBloodbath]

Hey, I'm pretty sure that it's gonna be useful also I don't like the submodules idea. Actually there are a lot of changes in the development version regarding to where is doom-nvim installed (now it's installed in ~/.config/nvim by default instead of a custom path) so maybe we can use the same structure as Doom Emacs (~/.config/nvim for keeping doom-nvim and ~/.config/doom-nvim for keeping the user configurations).

But I don't want to make the source too complex or keeping introducing breaking changes so we can make this a feature so you will be able to keep your doom-nvim configurations in two paths depending on your needs:

1. The default path (~/.config/nvim)
2. A custom path (~/.config/doom-nvim by default)

Let me know what do you think about so we can implement it soon.

Regards

[NTBBloodbath]

Hey, so I just pushed a few changes to implement it the way I said before and also added an entry to our FAQ (I'm thinking about moving it to a wiki entry when 3.1 is released as a stable version)

[starptr]

That sounds great, my setup is currently too wonky to try it out the dev branch but it looks nice & clean (and proven based on doom emacs)

[NTBBloodbath]

I'll be closing this because the feature was already implemented in the development version so I can have a better track of the next version milestone 🙂

Feel free to reopen this in the future if you're still facing issues while dotfiling doom-nvim