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fix(home-manager): back up clobbered dotfiles on activation #10

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Set home-manager.backupFileExtension = "backup" on the NixOS and Darwin base modules. Existing machines carry hand-written ~/.zshrc and ~/.zshenv that home-manager would refuse to overwrite, aborting activation. With a backup extension, the originals are saved as .backup and activation proceeds. The oh-my-zsh setup is already declared in lyrathorpe/home/shell.nix, so the generated files supersede the old ones.

Set home-manager.backupFileExtension = "backup" on the NixOS and Darwin base modules. Existing machines carry hand-written ~/.zshrc and ~/.zshenv that home-manager would refuse to overwrite, aborting activation. With a backup extension, the originals are saved as .backup and activation proceeds. The oh-my-zsh setup is already declared in lyrathorpe/home/shell.nix, so the generated files supersede the old ones.
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fix(home-manager): back up clobbered dotfiles on activation
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Set home-manager.backupFileExtension = "backup" on the NixOS and Darwin base modules. Existing machines carry hand-written ~/.zshrc and ~/.zshenv that home-manager would refuse to overwrite, aborting activation. With a backup extension, the originals are saved as .backup and activation proceeds. The oh-my-zsh setup is already declared in lyrathorpe/home/shell.nix, so the generated files supersede the old ones.
lyrathorpe merged commit eeb1c72d7f into main 2026-06-02 17:30:29 +01:00
lyrathorpe deleted branch fix/hm-dotfile-backup 2026-06-02 17:30:30 +01:00
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