dotfiles

Author: lapostoj

Contact: jerome.lapostolet@gmail.com

Description

dotfiles defining system configuration and setup. It is meant for a usage on MacOSX, with zsh, iterm2 and VSCode mainly. This repository is based on the dotfiles from @holman and @igalarzab

Install

• git clone git@github.com:lapostoj/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles
• ~/.dotfiles/bootstrap.sh
• cat ~/.dotfiles/packages/homebrew.txt | xargs brew install (to repeat for the different package managers present in the folder)

Based on the user's input, this will symlink the appropriate files in .dotfiles to your home directory as well as install and or update the listed dependencies and applications.

Components

Everything's built around topic areas. If you're adding a new area to your forked dotfiles — say, "Java" — you can simply add a java directory and put files in there. Anything with an extension of .zsh will get automatically included into your shell. Anything with an extension of .symlink will get symlinked without extension into $HOME when you run the bootstrap script.

The files follow these patterns:

• bin/: Anything in bin/ will get added to your $PATH and be made available everywhere.
• topic/*.zsh: Any file ending in .zsh get loaded into your environment.
• topic/*.symlink: Any file ending in *.symlink get symlinked into your $HOME. This is so you can keep all of those versioned in your dotfiles but still keep those autoloaded files in your home directory.
• topic/install.sh: Any file called install.sh is expected to be called in bootstrap.sh after confirmation from the user.
• packages/package-manager.txt: These files are lists of applications to install with the corresponding package-managers in order to be fully ready to operate.