dotfiles

This is a project created for syncing as much of my MacOS dev machine configuration as possible

Prerequisites

• git
  • If you intend on checking out this repo using SSH, an SSH key configured and added to your github
• On MacOS, brew for package installation

Installation - dotfiles

• This is based off of Atlassian's bare dotfile repo implementation
• Open a shell, and bare clone this repo into the .dotfiles directory
  • git clone --bare [email protected]:verhey/dotfiles.git $HOME/.dotfiles
• Define the following alias in your shell:
  • alias dotfiles='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME'
  • or abbr -a dotfiles "/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME" if using fish
• Checkout the content from the bare repo into your home folder:
  • dotfiles checkout
  • If this fails, delete any dotfiles that may conflict, or back them up
  • Try dotfiles checkout again, and you should see the files in the root of this repo end up in your home dir
• To make dotfiles status output useful, set local config for this repo to ignore untracked files (as in, the rest of your home dir)
  • dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

Usage

• If you (or another application has modified a dotfile) and you want to update it here, the dotfiles alias you set up in previous steps works just like git does.
  • Your status command is somewhat nerfed though, because you don't want to be tracking every file in your home directory

Installation - Brewfiles and MacOS setup

• From the install/macos directory:
  • brew bundle to install contents of Brewfile
  • zsh configure_macos to configure MacOS-specific settings
    • This is WIP-y, Apple seems to change what works and what doesn't with every MacOS version
• I've been trying out fish - to set it as the default system shell do:
  • sudo echo /opt/homebrew/bin/fish >> /etc/shells
  • chsh -s /opt/homebrew/bin/fish
  • Someday the zsh pieces of this repo might disappear, or they'll get simpler
• Probably reboot