dotfiles

Your dotfiles are how you personalize your system. These are mine.

Topical

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.

Components

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 Java and Clojure and stuff.
• 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/install.sh: Any file named install.sh is executed when you run script/install. To avoid being loaded automatically, its extension is .sh, not .zsh.
• topic/*.symlink: Any file ending in *.symlink gets 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 run script/bootstrap.

Install

Run this:

# Download the dotfiles repo
curl -LOk https://github.com/brendonjwong/dotfiles/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
mv dotfiles-master dotfiles
cd dotfiles

# Run the installation
script/bootstrap

# Connect the local directory to remote repo (now that git is installed)
git init
git remote add origin git@github.com:brendonjwong/dotfiles.git
git clean -fd
git pull origin master
git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/master master

This will symlink the appropriate files in dotfiles to your home directory.

dot is a simple script that installs some dependencies, sets sane macOS 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/.

Credit

I forked Zach Holman's dotfiles. Thank you for providing the basis for my own customization/configuration.