/dotfiles

files with dots in them

Primary LanguageShellMIT LicenseMIT

These are my dotfiles. I use stow to deploy dotfiles into my home directory. I use age to encrypt private dotfiles, which allows for storing them securely in a git repository. My dotfiles are based around the Bash shell.

using

  • Add your SSH public key(s) to your GitHub account.
  • Clone this repo to ~/.dotfiles.
  • Put private dotfiles in ~/.dotfiles/private.
    • Also, consider running git init inside the ~/.dotfiles/private directory if you'd like to use git to track changes to the private dotfiles. This would never be separately pushed to a remote, but remote backup is provided via the enclosing dotfiles repository being pushed to GitHub.
  • Set your GitHub username (we pull your public SSH keys from GitHub to encrypt your private dotfiles):
export GITHUB_USER="your-username-here"
  • Run script/encrypt to create an encrypted tarball of your private dotfiles.
  • Push to GitHub.
  • Run script/bootstrap to put dotfiles in place, this will prompt for an SSH passphrase to decrypt private dotfiles.

To bring dotfiles to a new machine:

  • Add that machine's SSH pubkey to your GitHub account.
  • On a machine with dotfiles already checked out, run script/encrypt and push changes to GitHub.
  • Pull dotfiles to the new machine and run script/bootstrap.
  • This has deviated long ago and far away, but was originally part of @holman's dotfiles. Mistakes are mine, dope stylings are probably all his.