ashokm does dotfiles

Your dotfiles are how you personalize your system. These are mine.

Warning: If you want to give these dotfiles a try, you should first fork this repository, review the code, and remove things you don’t want or need. Don’t blindly use my settings unless you know what that entails. Use at your own risk!

Install

git clone https://github.com/ashokm/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles
cd ~/.dotfiles
./bootstrap.sh --install

This will symlink the files in ~/.dotfiles/dotfiles to your home directory. Everything is configured and tweaked within ~/.dotfiles.

Specify the $PATH

If ~/.path exists, it will be sourced along with the other files, before any feature testing takes place.

Here’s an example ~/.path file that adds /usr/local/bin to the $PATH:

export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"

Add custom commands

If ~/.extra exists, it will be sourced along with the other files. You can use this to add a few custom commands without the need to fork this entire repository, or to add commands you don’t want to commit to a public repository.

My ~/.extra looks something like this (and I use githome and gitwork aliases to switch between home and work email addresses):

# Git credentials
GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="Ashok Manji"
GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
git config --global user.name "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"

GIT_HOME_EMAIL="1902568+ashokm@users.noreply.github.com"
GIT_WORK_EMAIL="work.username@company.com"
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="$GIT_HOME_EMAIL"
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$GIT_HOME_EMAIL"
git config --global user.email "$GIT_HOME_EMAIL"

Sensible macOS defaults

When setting up a new Mac, you may want to set some sensible macOS defaults:

./scripts/macos.sh

Optional

Switch remote URL from HTTPS to SSH

1. List your existing remotes in order to get the name of the remote you want to change.

   $ git remote -v
   > origin  https://github.com/USERNAME/REPOSITORY.git (fetch)
   > origin  https://github.com/USERNAME/REPOSITORY.git (push)

2. Change your remote's URL from HTTPS to SSH with the git remote set-url command.

   $ git remote set-url origin git@github.com:USERNAME/REPOSITORY.git
   >

3. Verify that the remote URL has changed.

   $ git remote -v
   # Verify new remote URL
   > origin  git@github.com:USERNAME/REPOSITORY.git (fetch)
   > origin  git@github.com:USERNAME/REPOSITORY.git (push)

Reference

Uninstall

cd ~/.dotfiles
./bootstrap.sh --uninstall
rm -rf ~/.dotfiles

Screenshots

Credits

This project uses open source components. You can find the source code of their open source projects along with license information below. We acknowledge and are grateful to these developers for their contributions to open source.

• Mathias' dotfiles by Mathias Bynens (MIT)
• holman does dotfiles by Zach Holman (MIT)