dotfiles 💙

• Root of this repository is the root of my home directory.
  • This is done using a bare git repository, which sets the working directory to the home folder, and git directory to ~/.dotfiles.
  • Using showUntrackedFiles=false, only tracked files will be visible in git commands for the dotfiles.
• Ansible playbooks are placed under ~/ansible-config.
  • This is used for configuring my MacOS system, packages and git repo.

Fresh install

After installing a fresh instance of MacOS, I temporary clone this repository and run my ansible-playbooks:

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/frealmyr/dotfiles.git /tmp/dotfiles
cd /tmp/dotfiles/ansible-config
./provision

Post install

Dotfiles

I make use of a alias for managing my dotfiles, dtf:

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

Only checked in files are tracked.

For adding all changes made to tracked files I use:

dtf add -u
dtf commit -m "changes"
dtf push -u origin main

And dtf add ./config/newapp if the files are not tracked yet.

Ansible

Whenever I configure MacOS, I add more functionality to the playbooks in playbooks/ and then re-run the individual playbook. Keeping the playbooks updated.

Tip for adding osx_defaults tasks in playbook, is to dump your existing configuration using the defaults read -g command.