Hello, While attempting to setup home-dotfiles-service, I noticed that some files were being symlinked even though they were in the variable `%home-dotfiles-excluded', such as all the files of the .git directory. This patch seems to fix the problem : diff --git a/gnu/home/services/dotfiles.scm b/gnu/home/services/dotfiles.scm index 823bdb03fb..38f7ff83d0 100644 --- a/gnu/home/services/dotfiles.scm +++ b/gnu/home/services/dotfiles.scm @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ (define-module (gnu home services dotfiles) (define %home-dotfiles-excluded '(".*~" ".*\\.swp" - "\\.git" + "\\.git/.*" "\\.gitignore")) (define %home-dotfiles-layouts @@ -138,8 +138,7 @@ (define* (directory-contents directory #:key (packages #f)) (define (filter-files directory) (find-files directory (lambda (file stat) - (not (regexp-exec exclusion-rx - (basename file)))))) + (not (regexp-exec exclusion-rx file))))) (if (and stow? packages (maybe-value-set? packages)) (append-map filter-files (map (lambda (pkg)