Week 4 Lab: The dotfiles repository

Week 4 lab, turn a pile of config into a repository someone else could read and rebuild

15 March 2027

The first lab marked toward the Dotfiles Repository. We treat the config as what it is becoming: a codebase.

Before the lab#

Have your config under git with commit messages a stranger could follow.

In the lab#

You swap repositories with a partner and try to understand each other’s setups cold, with no narration. Wherever your partner gets lost is a documentation bug, and you fix it before you leave. We look at structure, naming, and history as engineering, not decoration.

Afterwards#

You leave with a repository that reads like it was meant to be read, and a list of the places it still does not.