holman does dotfiles

dotfiles

Your dotfiles are how you personalize your system. These are mine.

I was a little tired of having long alias files and everything strewn about (which is extremely common on other dotfiles projects, too). That led to this project being much more topic-centric. I realized I could split a lot of things up into the main areas I used (Ruby, git, system libraries, and so on), so I structured the project accordingly.

If you're interested in the philosophy behind why projects like these are awesome, you might want to read my post on the subject.

Installation of these dotfiles:

Clone this repo and install with bootstrap command:

git clone https://github.com/holman/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles
cd ~/.dotfiles
script/bootstrap

This will symlink the appropriate files in .dotfiles to your home directory. Everything is configured and tweaked within ~/.dotfiles.

The main file you'll want to change right off the bat is zsh/zshrc.symlink, which sets up a few paths that'll be different on your particular machine.

dot is a simple script that installs some dependencies, sets sane OS X defaults, and so on. Tweak this script, and occasionally run dot from time to time to keep your environment fresh and up-to-date. You can find this script in bin/.

ahao's addendum

Install all extra Brew packages here.

$ brew bundle

Run install script

$ ./scripts/ahao-install.sh

Change default shell

$ chsh -s /bin/zsh

Things that need manual installs

GPG

Export from Keybase: https://blog.scottlowe.org/2017/09/06/using-keybase-gpg-macos/

Import GPG key:

$ gpg --import path/to/key.asc

Tell git to use it:

$ git config --global user.signingkey KEY

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