dotfiles

Installation (Mac/Linux/WSL)

$ ./install.sh

Installation (Windows Powershell)

$ .\install.ps1

Making Your Own Dotfiles

First, make a copy of my repo but remove the history and make it your own:

$ cd ~
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wavebeem/dotfiles.git
$ cd dotfiles
$ rm -rf .git

This is a great point to delete any files you don't want (e.g. tmux.conf if you never use tmux).

$ git init
$ git add -A
$ git commit -m "Initial commit"

Then create a new repo on GitHub and follow the instructions for pushing an existing Git repo to GitHub.

If you based your dotfiles on mine, please consider putting a link to my dotfiles repo in your README :)

Now copy over files you'd like to keep, like:

# Copy zsh config
$ cp ~/.zshrc zshrc
$ cp ~/.zshenv zshenv

# Copy bash config
$ cp ~/.bashrc bashrc
$ cp ~/.bash_profile bash_profile

# Copy VS Code settings, keybindings, and snippets
$ mkdir -p vscode
$ cp ~/Library/Application\ Support/Code/User/settings.json vscode/settings.json
$ cp ~/Library/Application\ Support/Code/User/keybindings.json vscode/keybindings.json
$ rm -rf vscode/snippets && cp -r ~/Library/Application\ Support/Code/User/snippets vscode/snippets

Note the dot in front of zshrc is missing on the second instance.

Edit the Main function in install.sh to install only the files you actually have.

When you've copied over all the dotfiles from your home directory into your own dotfiles repo, run the following commands:

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MAKE SURE YOU ARE NOT COMMITTING PASSWORDS OR API KEYS

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$ git add -A
$ git commit -m "Customized dotfiles"
$ ./install.sh

You will be prompted to delete files that already exist. Say yes (y) to each one. Now that file will be replaced with a symbolic link (symlink) to the file inside your dotfiles repo.

From now on, you should periodically open your dotfiles repo, commit, and push your changes to GitHub. If you are using multiple computesr, you can pull your changes from GitHub when things get out of date. And since you're using Git, you can even resolve merge conflicts and push up your fix when that happens.