Dotfiles

This directory stores configuration files for my macOS environment with easy install scripts for setting up a new Mac and to make my macOS environment available anywhere.

Xcode Command Line Tools

In order to use this dotfiles, first you should install Xcode Comand Line tools if on a brand new Mac or you haven't used it yet. Run this in your terminal:

xcode-select --install

or simply a make command will prompt you to install it too.

Setting Up Environment

First, clone this repository in your home directory:

git clone https://github.com/victorhmp/dotfiles

Homebrew

To install Homebrew, just run:

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

After installing Homebrew, you can install all the packages listed in the Brewfile from this repository by running:

brew bundle --file=~/dotfiles/homebrew/Brewfile

Symbolic Links

To actually use the configuration files in this repository, you need to symlink them to your home directory. And to make that easy, I use GNU Stow.

The files in this repository are organized in a way that stow can easily create symlinks to them where they're expected to be. Here's an example, where I'm going to use the Alacritty setup here:

stow alacritty

This will create a symlink for all files inside ~/dotfiles/alacritty to ~/.config/alacritty.

macOS defaults

To get macOS settings from /macos, you actually have to run the .macos file as a script:

sh ./macos/.macos

After running the script, you should restart your Mac and everything should be configured.

Note: If you want to make your own .macos file, check out Mathias Byrens' macOS defaults script, probably the best reference you can find for setting macOS defaults via script.