Feature: Sync dotfiles on system update

update-system.sh now runs sync-dotfiles.sh first, which pulls the repo
(fast-forward only) and re-stows it so both machines pick up config changes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

dotfiles/.config/quickshell/scripts/sync-dotfiles.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Run by update-system.sh inside the update terminal, before the system
+# update — pulls the dotfiles repo and re-stows it so both machines pick up
+# config changes on every update.
+#
+# Never fails the update: a pull that can't fast-forward (local commits or
+# uncommitted changes in the way) or a stow conflict just prints a warning
+# and leaves things as they were, then the system update carries on.
+
+DOTFILES="$HOME/Projects/dotfiles"
+
+warn() { printf '\033[1;33m%s\033[0m\n' "$*"; }
+info() { printf '\033[1;36m%s\033[0m\n' "$*"; }
+
+if [ ! -d "$DOTFILES/.git" ]; then
+  warn "Dotfiles repo not found at $DOTFILES — skipping."
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+info "Pulling dotfiles..."
+# Fetch and merge separately so the warning says which one went wrong — the
+# remote is SSH via Bitwarden's agent, so a failed fetch is almost always
+# Bitwarden being closed or locked.
+if ! git -C "$DOTFILES" fetch; then
+  warn "Couldn't reach the dotfiles remote — is Bitwarden open and unlocked? Skipping stow."
+  echo
+  exit 0
+fi
+# --ff-only so a diverged branch never produces a surprise merge commit;
+# sort that out by hand instead.
+if ! git -C "$DOTFILES" merge --ff-only; then
+  warn "Couldn't fast-forward dotfiles (local changes or diverged branch) — skipping stow."
+  echo
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+if ! command -v stow &> /dev/null; then
+  warn "stow not installed — skipping."
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+info "Applying dotfiles with stow..."
+# -R restows: drops links for files removed from the repo and adds new ones.
+if stow -R -d "$DOTFILES" -t "$HOME" dotfiles; then
+  info "Dotfiles applied."
+else
+  warn "stow hit a conflict — nothing was changed. Fix it and re-run:"
+  warn "  stow -R -d $DOTFILES -t ~ dotfiles"
+fi
+echo

dotfiles/.config/quickshell/scripts/update-system.sh

@@ -58,5 +58,9 @@ fi
 # any output/errors with it.
 WAIT_PROMPT="echo; read -p 'Update finished — press Enter to close...'"
 
-foot -T update bash -c "$BANNER; $CMD; $WAIT_PROMPT"
+# Pull + re-stow the dotfiles first, so config changes from the other machine
+# land alongside the package update.
+SYNC="$(printf '%q' "$(dirname "$0")/sync-dotfiles.sh")"
+
+foot -T update bash -c "$BANNER; $SYNC; $CMD; $WAIT_PROMPT"
 notify-send -i "$iDIR/profile-pic.jpg" -u low "$LABEL" 'has been updated.'