Personal dotfiles

This repository hosts my personal set of dotfiles. I've published these files to multiple git servers which are more than likely outdated. For the latest version of my dotfiles please use my primary repo: https://github.com/jls5177/dotfiles

Note: This repo is heavily inspired by Ben Mezger's dotfile repo: https://github.com/benmezger/dotfiles

Architecture

This package uses custom Chezmoi config directories to deploy multiple Chezmoi states. This allows for isolating my Secrets so they are not included with the normal Chezmoi state. Which causes constant password prompts and slows down the normal Chezmoi workflow. In addition, this separation allows for anyone to quickly deploy my dotfiles without much hassle.

Everything is driven through a Makefile to ensure a consistent environment when running Chezmoi. This allows you to have your own dotfiles deployed with Chezmoi.

Installation

The following environment variables can be set to configure Chezmoi behavior:

• ASK: Set to 1 if you want to enable chezmoi to prompt you for all values during initialization. Which you should always enable unless you are deploying into an environment without a TTY terminal.

For example, you can enable ASK by running ASK=1 make reinit.

Default version

mkdir -p ~/jls5177-dotfiles \
  && cd ~/jls5177-dotfiles \
  && git clone https://github.com/jls5177/dotfiles.git . \
  && ASK=1 make

Secrets version

Note: This should never be ran by anyone else as you will not have access to my personal secrets vault.

cd ~/jls5177-dotfiles && make secrets apply

Rerunning Initialization

Run the following command to re-run the initialization process. Which basically deleted the configuration and recreates it. Reprompting you for your details.

cd ~/jls5177-dotfiles && git pull -r && ASK=1 make reinit

Make Goals

The included makefile is a thin wrapper around Chezmoi commands. Here is a brief breakdown of each supported goal:

• init -> chezmoi init
• apply -> chezmoi apply
• status -> chezmoi status
• verify -> chezmoi verify
• secerts: Use in combination with any other goal to target the secrets config. E.g. make secrets reinit

Helper Scripts

• scripts/chez.sh: Simple wrapper around Chezmoi that allows you to run any Chezmoi command (useful for debugging/advanced usecases)
• scripts/schez.sh: Same as chez.sh except it targets the secrets config (instead of the default config)