dotfiles

@josephearl’s dotfiles.

Using dotfiles

Pre-requisites: Homebrew

To replicate this configuration on a new machine initialise and fetch the repository:

brew install git
git init --bare "$HOME/.dotfiles"
alias dotfiles='/usr/bin/git --git-dir="$HOME/.dotfiles" --work-tree="$HOME"'
dotfiles remote add origin git@github.com:josephearl/dotfiles.git
dotfiles fetch

Backup and remove any existing conflicting files:

rm .bashrc
...

Checkout the master branch:

dotfiles checkout master

Load the latest settings:

source .bashrc

Install the software and macOS settings:

dotfiles install

Updating dotfiles

To add a new dotfile:

dotfiles add <filename>

To commit and push changes:

dotfiles commit -m <message>
dotfiles push origin master

Backing up Homebrew packages and casks:

brew leaves
brew cask list

Creating your own dotfiles

Create your own basic dotfiles setup as follows:

git init --bare "$HOME/.dotfiles"
alias dotfiles='/usr/bin/git --git-dir="$HOME/.dotfiles" --work-tree="$HOME"'
dotfiles config status.showUntrackedFiles no

You can use any other path instead of $HOME/.dotfiles to store the Git configuration for your dotfiles.