In order to backup, restore, and sync the prefs and settings for my toolbox, I create a repository includes all of my custome dotfiles. By the time I created this repository, I recognized that my dotfiles are the most important files on my machine.

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These repository dotfiles[1] are for setup the system enviornment in Mac OS.

Installation

  1. Backup your home original dotfiles if you need.

  2. Get the repository whereever you want. I like to keep in ~/Projects/dotfiles

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

  3. Using homebrew to install apps such as zsh, tmux, git, and vim

     cd dotfiles; setup/homebrew.sh

  4. Symlink to dotfiles to home directory as ~/.*

     setup/create_symlink.sh

  5. Start using your dotfiles’ apps

Repository Structure

  • bin/ - Utility executable scripts, should be copy to ~/bin/
  • git/ - Git related dotfiles and other configuration files.
  • setup/ - Installation files for dotfiles’ apps
  • tmux/ - Tmux related dotfiles.
  • vim/ - Vim related dotfiles and other configuration files.
  • zsh/ - ZSH related dotfiles, aliases and other files.

Awesome Dotfiles

  1. https://github.com/swcool/dotfiles ↩