MacOS bootstraping/Easy Dotfiles

1. Install Apple's Command Line Tools, which are prerequisites for Git and Homebrew

xcode-select --install

2. Clone repo into empty ~/.dotfiles folder

mkdir ~/.dotfiles && git clone https://github.com/johnseth97/.dotfiles .

3. Create symlinks in the Home directory to the real files in the repo by running .bin/sync.sh .

4. Install Homebrew, followed by the software listed in the Brewfile.

I intend to make this all part of one bootstrap script.

# Install Homebrew
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

# Then pass in the Brewfile location...
brew bundle --file ~/.dotfiles/Brewfile

5. Now you're done!

Features for those who fork the repo:

Sync:

Once installed, the alias sync-dotfiles should now work from anywhere in zsh. The command will alert you if changes have been made to your fork of the dotfiles. To sync your fork, preform the following:

# Change directory to the dotifiles repo
cd ~/.dotfiles

# View the changes
git diff

# Add a changed file
git add <filename>

# Or, remove a changed file
git rm <filename>

# Commit the changes
git commit 

# Push to the fork
git push 

# Run sync as a sanity check
sync-dotfiles

In the future, I plan to have these commands integrated into the sync-dotfiles script