/dotfiles

Minimal macOS dotfiles setup

Primary LanguageShellMIT LicenseMIT

This dotfiles setup is heavily based on Dries Vints' dotfiles. Read more about the original to get started with your own:

📖 - Read the blog post
📺 - Watch the screencast on Laracasts
💡 - Learn how to build your own dotfiles

Introduction

This repository holds most of the stuff I need to set up a new Mac. It makes setup much faster and less error-prone.

A Fresh Setup

Before you re-install

First, go through the checklist below to make sure you didn't forget anything before you wipe your hard drive.

  • Did you commit and push any changes/branches to your git repositories?
  • Did you remember to save all important non-cloud documents?
  • Did you remember to export important data from your local database?

Setting up your Mac

If you did all of the above you may now follow these install instructions to setup a new Mac.

  1. Update macOS to the latest version with the App Store

  2. Generate a new public and private SSH key by running:

    curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stopa/dotfiles/HEAD/ssh.sh | sh -s "<your-email-address>"

  3. Clone this repo to ~/.dotfiles and go to the directory:

    git clone git@github.com:stopa/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles && cd ~/.dotfiles

  4. Run the installation with:

    ./fresh.sh

  5. Restart your computer to finalize the process

  6. Have fun logging into all the apps! Firefox settings are synced through respective accounts. Webstorms settings are kept in the Settings Repository

Your Mac is now ready to use!

💡 You can use a different location than ~/.dotfiles if you want. Make sure you also update the reference in the .zshrc file.

What actually happens?

  1. oh-my-zsh is installed, if missing
  2. Homebrew is installed, if missing
  3. .zshrc from this repo is symlinked to the system one
  4. A whole bunch of tools and applications are installed from Homebrew (see the Brewfile)
  5. Defaults MySQL password is set
  6. Some useful directories are created and a bunch of git repos cloned into them
  7. Ruby gems installed
  8. Git config from this repo is symlinked to the system one, global gitignore is applied
  9. A whole bunch of macOS settings are set (see .macos file)

❗ Some of the macos defaults seem to not be working, which I'll attribute to them being semi-secret menu items anyway.