Style Guidelines
NixOS/Home-Manager Style
- •Use 2-space indentation in all files
- •Format Nix files with
nixfmt - •Follow functional programming patterns
- •Group related settings in modules
- •Use descriptive names for options
- •Document non-obvious settings with comments
- •When creating new files for Nix flakes, ensure they are tracked by git before testing with nix commands
- •Untracked files can cause errors like "path '/nix/store/hash-source/path/to/file' does not exist"
- •Solution: Track files without staging using
git add --intent-to-add path/to/fileorgit add -N path/to/file
Neovim Style
- •Use Lua for all configuration
- •2-space indentation, no tabs
- •Leader key is
; - •Format with proper whitespace and bracing style
- •Wrap related plugin configs in feature-based groups
- •Prefer native LSP functions over plugin equivalents
Git Workflow
- •Create focused, atomic commits
- •Use
hubas git wrapper - •Use
lazygitfor interactive Git operations - •Prefer rebase over merge for linear history
- •Do not include co-authored by Claude information in commits
- •Git config location:
~/.config/git/config - •Credential storage: git-credential-manager with GPG backend
- •Initialize pass:
pass init YOUR_GPG_KEY_ID - •Credentials stored securely with GPG encryption
- •Initialize pass: