Dotfiles

Getting started

1. Recommended: Fork project to tweek the settings and make it your own or do it locally: git clone https://github.com/hfalk/dotfiles
2. Modify settings.sh to your needs
   • Change git name, and remove packages/applications you don't need
3. Update macos.sh with preferred tweaks
4. Run the install script: bash install.sh (Remember: this project is using symlinks, so don't remove/delete projectfolder after install)

What does the install script do?

Lots of things! The following things will happen in cronological order:

_{[?] = Optional (the installer will ask before making the change)}

• Prerequisites
  • Install Xcode Select
  • Install Homebrew
  • Install essential brew packages (e.g. docker, node, python and coreutils)
• ZSH
  • Symlink universal dotfiles (such as .gitconfig and .vimrc)
  • Symlink zsh specific dotfiles
  • Install Oh My ZSH!
• Vim
  • Install vim-plug (vim package manager)
  • Install vim plugins (see .vimrc)
• Git
  • Set git name and email
• [?] Change macOS default (about 100 tweaks in total)
• [?] Install applications (such as Chrome and Spotify)

For more information of what the actual dotfiles does, take a look at source code.

Things to remember

Generate SSH key (use for github ++)

Add GPG to Git/Github

1. Generate a new gpg key (Remember same name and email as github) gpg --full-generate-key
   • Select RSA and key size of 4096
   • Let the key never expire (press enter)
   • Enter name and email
   • Enter a passphrase
2. List keys: gpg --list-secret-keys --keyid-format LONG
   • It output should look something like this: sec 4096R/XXXXXXXX"
   • The ID is the X's
3. Export this key and add it to GitHub (https://github.com/settings/keys): gpg --armor --export <PASTE_LONG_KEY_HERE(XXXXXXXX)>
   • Copy your GPG key, beginning with -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- and ending with -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----.
4. Add key to git: git config --global user.signingkey <PASTE_LONG_KEY_HERE>
5. To set all commits for a repository to be signed by default: git config --global commit.gpgsign true
   • To set all commits in any local repository on your computer to be signed by default: git config commit.gpgsign true
6. Export to bash_profile, to avoid re-entering password echo 'export GPG_TTY=$(tty)' >> ~/.bash_profile