This traditional dotfiles repository has been replaced by a chezmoi-managed version:

👉 New Repository: thabemmz/dotfiles-chezmoi

The new chezmoi-based setup provides:

• Better state management - knows what's been applied and what's changed
• Automated setup scripts - Homebrew and npm packages install automatically
• Template support - use variables and conditions in dotfiles
• Modern Zsh experience - uses zsh4humans with Powerlevel10k
• One-command installation - chezmoi init --apply https://github.com/thabemmz/dotfiles-chezmoi.git

If you're currently using this repository, switch to the new one:

# Install chezmoi (if not already installed)
brew install chezmoi

# Initialize with the new repo
chezmoi init --apply https://github.com/thabemmz/dotfiles-chezmoi.git

Forked from mathias and influenced by paul irish.

• Complete and finalize list of brew packages and brew cask packages
• Create complete brew install script
• Do the same for npm
• Investigate usage of vim (ditched it in this version)
• Look at setup - this one is kinda stupid (see #1)

Warning: If you want to give these dotfiles a try, you should first fork this repository, review the code, and remove things you don’t want or need. Don’t blindly use my settings unless you know what that entails. Use at your own risk!

You can clone the repository wherever you want. (I like to keep it in ~/Projects/dotfiles, with ~/dotfiles as a symlink.) The bootstrapper script will pull in the latest version and copy the files to your home folder.

git clone https://github.com/thabemmz/dotfiles.git && cd dotfiles && source bootstrap.sh

To update, cd into your local dotfiles repository and then:

source bootstrap.sh

Alternatively, to update while avoiding the confirmation prompt:

set -- -f; source bootstrap.sh

If ~/.path exists, it will be sourced along with the other files, before any feature testing (such as detecting which version of ls is being used) takes place.

Here’s an example ~/.path file that adds /usr/local/bin to the $PATH:

export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"

If ~/.extra exists, it will be sourced along with the other files. You can use this to add a few custom commands without the need to fork this entire repository, or to add commands you don’t want to commit to a public repository.

My ~/.extra looks something like this:

# Git credentials
# Not in the repository, to prevent people from accidentally committing under my name
GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="Mathias Bynens"
GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
git config --global user.name "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="[email protected]"
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"
git config --global user.email "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"

You could also use ~/.extra to override settings, functions and aliases from my dotfiles repository. It’s probably better to fork this repository instead, though.

When setting up a new Mac, you may want to set some sensible OS X defaults:

./osx/init.sh

When setting up a new Mac, you may want to install some common Homebrew formulae (after installing Homebrew, of course):

./osx/brew.sh

After setting up Node.js (via nvm or direct installation), you can install commonly used global npm packages:

./osx/npm-install.sh

Suggestions/improvements welcome!

• Mathias Bynens and his awesome dotfiles repos
• @ptb and his OS X Lion Setup repository
• Ben Alman and his dotfiles repository
• Chris Gerke and his tutorial on creating an OS X SOE master image + Insta repository
• Cătălin Mariș and his dotfiles repository
• Gianni Chiappetta for sharing his amazing collection of dotfiles
• Jan Moesen and his ancient .bash_profile + shiny tilde repository
• Lauri ‘Lri’ Ranta for sharing loads of hidden preferences
• Matijs Brinkhuis and his dotfiles repository
• Nicolas Gallagher and his dotfiles repository
• Sindre Sorhus
• Tom Ryder and his dotfiles repository
• Kevin Suttle and his dotfiles repository and OSXDefaults project, which aims to provide better documentation for ~/.osx
• Haralan Dobrev
• anyone who contributed a patch or made a helpful suggestion