jehna / my-terminal-config

My Terminal configurations

So I don't need to feel poor when I get a new computer

Generally this is just contents of my ~/.config/ folder. It contains configurations for different tools I use frequently.

Installing

To use my configurations on your machine, just clone the repository to your home folder:

git clone [e-mail]:jehna/my-terminal-config.git ~/.config

This creates a folder called .config/ to your home folder.

See app-specific installation instructions below:

Installing bash

To install the bash config, add the following line to your own ~/.bash_profile file:

source ~/.config/bash/main.bash

This installs the common bash startup scripts from the bash/ folder.

Installing brew packages

After installing brew to your machine you can use the following command to install all global packages:

brew bundle --file=~/.config/brew/Brewfile

This takes all the dependencies from the Brewfile and installs them on your machine locally

Updating Homebrew list of packages

When you install a new Homebrew package (run brew install ...), you should update your global package list by running:

brew bundle dump -f --file=~/.config/brew/Brewfile

This updates your local list of installed Homebrew packages

Setting up the machine to wanted configs with Ansible

Ansible automates most things for a fresh MacOS install. The provided playbook.yml does most things, although restart may be needed after running:

ansible-playbook ansible/playbook.yml

Installing VSCode plugins

This repository also has a "vscode packages file", wihch you can use to track the installed plugins for VSCode. You can install all packages by running:

code --list-extensions | comm -13 - ~/.config/vscode/extensions.list | xargs -I {} code --install-extension {} # Adds new extensions
code --list-extensions | comm -23 - ~/.config/vscode/extensions.list | xargs -I {} code --uninstall-extension {} # Removes old extensions

Updating plugin list

Keeping the plugin list up to date requires manual work (like with Homebrew), and you can update the extension list by running:

code --list-extensions > ~/.config/vscode/extensions.list

Adding new files

If you fork this repo and add new configurations, make sure that you don't commit any tokens or hashes that cannot be released to public.

Many programs use the folder as the place to save their configurations, and those can include items that should not be disclosed to the public.

Features

Currently includes my git config with aliases to:

• git lg = Better Git log
• git dif = Git diff by one character (normal diff is by line)
• git grep-blame = Same as git grep, but shows blame for each line
• git show-dropped-stashes = Dropped a stash by accident? You can recover it with this command.

Contributing

This is pimarily menat to be my personal configuration stash, but I'm always open to add good configs. If you have any suggestions, just pop a pull request and I'll take a look.

Licensing

This repository is licensed under MIT license.