/dotfiles

:wrench: .files, including MacOS defaults & other setup scripts

Primary LanguageShellMIT LicenseMIT

Daniel's dotfiles

Based on the awesome Mathias's dotfiles.

Screenshot of my shell prompt

Installation

Warning: If you want to give these dotfiles a try, you should first fork this repository, review the code, and remove things you don’t want or need. Don’t blindly use my settings unless you know what that entails. Use at your own risk!

Using Git and the bootstrap script

You can clone the repository wherever you want. (I like to keep it in ~/dev/personal/dotfiles.) The bootstrapper script will pull in the latest version and copy dotfiles to your home folder.

git clone https://github.com/kessl/dotfiles.git && cd dotfiles && source bootstrap.sh

To update, cd into your local dotfiles repository and then:

source bootstrap.sh

Alternatively, to update while avoiding the confirmation prompt:

set -- -f; source bootstrap.sh

Add custom commands without creating a new fork

If ~/.extra exists, it will be sourced along with the other files. You can use this to add a few custom commands without the need to fork this entire repository, or to add commands you don’t want to commit to a public repository.

My ~/.extra looks something like this:

# Git credentials
# Not in the repository, to prevent people from accidentally committing under my name
GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="Daniel Kessl"
GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
git config --global user.name "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="dan@kessl.net"
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"
git config --global user.email "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"

You could also use ~/.extra to override settings, functions and aliases from my dotfiles repository. It’s probably better to fork this repository instead, though.

New machine setup

MacOS defaults

When setting up a new Mac, you may want to set some sensible MacOS defaults:

$ ./setup/macos.sh

Install Homebrew formulae

When setting up a new Mac, you may want to install some common Homebrew formulae (after installing Homebrew, of course):

$ ./setup/brew.sh

Some of the functionality of these dotfiles depends on formulae installed by brew.sh. If you don’t plan to run brew.sh, you should look carefully through the script and manually install any particularly important ones. A good example is Bash/Git completion: the dotfiles use a special version from Homebrew.

Secrets

To encrypt secrets, place them in setup/secrets/ and create a tarball:

$ tar czf secrets.tar.gz secrets/

Encrypt using GPG:

$ gpg --encrypt --recipient your@email secrets.tar.gz

I prefer to keep all secrets in ~/.secrets and symlink them to their original locations. Edit secrets.sh to symlink/copy all your secrets.

Back up your private key to a password manager! To restore your secrets:

$ ./setup/secrets.sh

VSCode settings

When setting up a new Mac, you may want to set up VSCode settings:

$ ./setup/vscode.sh

Mount shares

When setting up a new Mac, you may want to mount some remote shares:

$ ./setup/mount.sh

Thanks to…