This is a repository of my own local dev configuration files.

It's a pain having to setup a new environment. I have had to do it many times for various reasons and this repo is an attempt to reduce that pain in future. Also it's good to keep a record of interesting configs I have come across.

It's basically all https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11070797 but documenting in a little more detail for future me here.

I was previously doing this all in bash but have moved to zsh.

I set both of these to sync setting from a directory. Obviously these both need to be installed.

~/.config/iterm for ITerm2 and ~/.config/alfred for alfred.

I used the instructions here: https://codeolsen.com/productivity/tools/iterm-sync-dropbox/

Neovim need to be installed too. I also use homebrew so

brew install neovim

This is how to do this first time ever i.e. you are on a machine with a config and you want to start tracking that config. Not use an existing one.

# Initialize a bare repo in a directory called .cfg
git init --bare ~/.cfg

# Setup an alias for interacting with this repo (using config but can be whatever)
echo "alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME'" >> ~/.zshrc && source ~/.zshrc

# Basically ignore (just don't show) untracked files
config config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

# If you want to push this to a remote, set that up
config remote add origin {your repo URL}

Now you can add the files you want to track.

config add .config/iterm .config/alfred .config/nvim .zsh_aliases .zshrc .gitconfig .gitignore

config commit -m 'Added config files'
config push

Setup the alias the same as if it was a new setup.

git init --bare ~/.cfg

echo "alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME'" >> ~/.zshrc && source ~/.zshrc

config config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

config remote add origin {your repo URL}

Now you have a choice. You can delete or move and backup your local config files and just do config pull

Or, if you have local configs you want to keep, you can add them, commit them and merge from remote.