Set up SSH

mkdir .ssh
touch .ssh/id_rsa
touch .ssh/id_rsa.pub
sudo chown 600 .ssh/id_rsa
sudo chown 600 .ssh/id_rsa.pub

Populate with content from password manager

Tools

Install Oh My ZSH

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

Make zsh default if you haven't already:

chsh -s $(which zsh)

Instal ZSH plugins

zsh-syntax-highlighting

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting

zsh-autosuggestions

git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions

git-open

git clone https://github.com/paulirish/git-open.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/git-open

Sync dotfiles

Make sure that your source repository ignores the folder where you'll clone it, so that you don't create weird recursion problems:

echo ".cfg" >> .gitignore

Clone the repo

git clone --bare git@github.com:blackhexagon/dotfiles.git $HOME/.cfg

Restart the shell

source .zshrc

We set a flag - local to the repository - to hide files we are not explicitly tracking yet. This is so that when you type config status and other commands later, files you are not interested in tracking will not show up as untracked.

config config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

Checkout the actual content from the bare repository to your $HOME

config checkout

Remove the conflicting files