@josephearl’s dotfiles.
Pre-requisites: Homebrew
To replicate this configuration on a new machine initialise and fetch the repository:
brew install git
git init --bare "$HOME/.dotfiles"
alias dotfiles='/usr/bin/git --git-dir="$HOME/.dotfiles" --work-tree="$HOME"'
dotfiles remote add origin git@github.com:josephearl/dotfiles.git
dotfiles fetch
Backup and remove any existing conflicting files:
rm .bashrc
...
Checkout the master branch:
dotfiles checkout master
Load the latest settings:
source .bashrc
Install the software and macOS settings:
dotfiles install
To add a new dotfile:
dotfiles add <filename>
To commit and push changes:
dotfiles commit -m <message>
dotfiles push origin master
Backing up Homebrew packages and casks:
brew leaves
brew cask list
Create your own basic dotfiles setup as follows:
git init --bare "$HOME/.dotfiles"
alias dotfiles='/usr/bin/git --git-dir="$HOME/.dotfiles" --work-tree="$HOME"'
dotfiles config status.showUntrackedFiles no
You can use any other path instead of $HOME/.dotfiles to store the Git configuration for your dotfiles.