dotfiles

First things first

Remap caps lock to escape (also swap command and option on the Sculpt keyboard)
Adjust scroll direction
Change hostname (instructions for MacOS)

MacOS

sudo softwareupdate -i -a
xcode-select --install

Change some settings

defaults write -g InitialKeyRepeat -int 12
defaults write -g KeyRepeat -int 1
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -int 0
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -float 0.4
killall Dock

Install Homebrew

change wakeup https://twitter.com/thorstenball/status/1736679960784310775

https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/managing-commit-signature-verification/generating-a-new-gpg-key

Installing dotfiles onto a new computer

Clone dotfiles repo to a bare repo:

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

Define alias in current shell scope:

alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME'

Checkout the actual content from the bare repo to $HOME

config checkout

This step might fail if you have conflicts, so this command can move the offending files to another repo:

mkdir -p .config-backup && \
config checkout 2>&1 | egrep "\s+\." | awk {'print $1'} | \
xargs -I{} mv {} .config-backup/{}

Set the flag `showUntrackedFiles`` to no on this specific (local) repository:

config config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

Appendix

Starting "config" dotfiles setup from scratch

git init --bare $HOME/.cfg
alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME'
config config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no
echo "alias config='/usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME'" >> $HOME/.bashrc

References

Atlassian "config" setup for dotfiles
Thorsten Ball's setup post

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