Your dotfiles are how you personalise your system.
If you're interested in the philosophy behind why projects like these are awesome, you might want to read Zach Holman's post on the subject.
For Apple Silicon based macs you can use the experimental apple-silicon
branch which runs installers using the arch -x86_64
prefix which ensures they run under Rosetta 2 to avoid compatability problems until full support for Apple's new chips is widely available.
Everything's built around topic areas. If you're adding a new area to your
forked dotfiles — say, "Java" — you can simply add a java
directory and put
files in there. Anything with an extension of .zsh
will get automatically
included into your shell. Anything with an extension of .symlink
will get
symlinked without extension into $HOME
when you run script/bootstrap
.
There's a few special files in the hierarchy.
- bin/: Anything in
bin/
will get added to your$PATH
and be made available everywhere. - Brewfile: This is a list of applications for Homebrew Cask to install: things like Chrome and 1Password and Adium and stuff. Might want to edit this file before running any initial setup.
- topic/*.zsh: Any files ending in
.zsh
get loaded into your environment. - topic/path.zsh: Any file named
path.zsh
is loaded first and is expected to setup$PATH
or similar. - topic/completion.zsh: Any file named
completion.zsh
is loaded last and is expected to setup autocomplete. - topic/*.symlink: Any files ending in
*.symlink
get symlinked into your$HOME
. This is so you can keep all of those versioned in your dotfiles but still keep those autoloaded files in your home directory. These get symlinked in when you runscript/bootstrap
.
git clone [email protected]:cameroncooke/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles
cd ~/.dotfiles
script/install
Once installation complete:
script/bootstrap
This will symlink the appropriate files in .dotfiles
to your home directory.
Everything is configured and tweaked within ~/.dotfiles
.
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/
.
I forked Zach Holman's' excellent
dotfiles and owe a significant thank you to Mr. Holman for his project. I've made substantial changes to make a more iOS-oriented configuration (see the xcode
folder), but the foundation is his.