dotfiles …what else?

How I set up my dev system.

A bit of history

This is my third attempt trying to setup my dotfiles. It is needless to say that I failed badly the first 2 times, but I'm beliver and I don't wanna give up.

These dotfiles originates from a fork of the excellent work done by Max and with some copy-pasta from Paul's dotfiles. Thanks Max and Paul for all the 🐟.

About

My dotfiles follow holman's concept of "topical" organization. Each topic has its own directory with special filename conventions ⚡️:

• topic/install.sh: script executed when installing/updating the topic
• topic/symlink.sh: script executed when symlinking the topic
• topic/name.symlink: files picked up by the symlink.sh script of the topic
• topic/finalize.sh: script executed at the end, after the installation/update and the symlink

(Note: the homebrew topic is always evaluated first as other topics depend on it.)

Installation

(on new computer: set up ssh keys first)

# start in the home directory
cd

# clone repository
git clone --recursive git@github.com:nickgnd/dotfiles.git

# navigate into the new directory
cd dotfiles

# run the install script
script/setup

See docs for additional help.