dotfiles 🔥

This solution for storing dotfiles is inspired by this comment on Hacker News!

Quick Start 🚀

Initial setup

You MUST complete these few steps before attempting to follow any of the instructions below. To initialize your machine:

1. Add a dotfile alias. The .bashrc and .zshrc in this repo already contain the configuration, but if you don't have the configurations pulled from here, you'll have to set it yourself.

   For bash

   echo "alias dotfiles='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME'" >> $HOME/.bashrc

   For zsh

   echo "alias dotfiles='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME'" >> $HOME/.zshrc

   For current scope

   alias dotfiles='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME'

2. Install homebrew

   /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

3. Install brew bundle

   brew tap Homebrew/bundle

Usage

1. Clone this repo

   git clone --bare https://github.com/O-Hannonen/dotfiles.git $HOME/.dotfiles

2. Checkout the content

   dotfiles checkout

3. Install contents of Brefile

   brew bundle install

Updating

1. Use basic git commands to commit changes

   dotfiles add .zshrc
   dotfiles commit -m "feat: updates .zshrc"
   dotfiles push

2. That's it!

Setting up a similar repo

1. Initialize git repo

   git init --bare $HOME/.dotfiles

2. Hide untracked files

   dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

3. Create Brewfile which contains everything you've installed with homebrew

   brew bundle dump -f

4. Use basic git commands to add remote commit changes. You should add all the files here you want to include in your dotfiles (also the newly created Brewfile)

   dotfiles remote add origin [email protected]:<USERNAME>/dotfiles.git
   dotfiles commit -m "feat: initial commit"
   dotfiles push -u origin main