⚙ pedrosanta / dotfiles

My collection of configuration and dotfiles, mostly set to work with macOS, bash shell and native Terminal.app, so if your preferences differ YMMV.

It makes use of GNU Stow, a very simple and interesting symlink tool particularly useful to help manage dotfiles repositories.

Installation

Installing these dotfiles and bootstrapping a new Mac is simple, just follow the next steps.

Install Homebrew.

Clone the repository to ~/.dotfiles folder, like so.

git clone git@github.com:pedrosanta/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles

Finally, run the bootstrap.sh to set initial config/defaults, install Homebrew packages/apps and set up the dotfiles:

./bootstrap.sh

Update and usage

The before mentioned bootstrap.sh is best suited to bootstrap new systems. If you happen to pull updates to your dotfiles, or update your desired Homebrew packages/apps, you can run the scripts in separate:

• Run ./brew.sh if you have updated the package or apps list, you can also use this script to update and upgrade installed formulae;
• Run ./install.sh to re-install/re-symlink dotfiles, for instance, in the case you've pulled new dotfiles that need to be symlinked;

See also

Here are some more resources on dotfiles I think may be worth looking to:

• dotfiles, an unofficial guide to dotfiles on GitHub and amazing list of dotfiles resources, projects, repositories and management tools;
• Managing your dotfiles, a very brief overview to how can you manage your dotfiles;
• Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles, learn to use this pretty useful symlink tool to manage your dotfiles;
• mathiasbynens/dotfiles, dotfiles repository and sensible hacker defaults for macOS;
• webpro/awesome-dotfiles, a curated list of dotfiles resources inspired by the awesome list;
• And of course, the huge list of dotfiles repositories on GitHub to draw more ideas and inspiration;

License

This code is available under the MIT license.