My dotfiles

This repository is based around the dotfiles by Freek Van der Herten and Dries Vints and modified for my own personal setup.

A Fresh macOS Setup

These instructions are for when you've already set up your dotfiles.

Before you re-install

First, go through the checklist below to make sure you didn't forget anything before you wipe your hard drive.

• Did you commit and push any changes/branches to your git repositories?
• Did you remember to save all important documents from non-iCloud directories?
• Did you save all of your work from apps which aren't synced through iCloud?
• Did you remember to export important data from your local database?
• Did you update mackup to the latest version and ran mackup backup?

Installing macOS cleanly

After going to our checklist above and making sure you backed everything up, we're going to cleanly install macOS with the latest release. Follow this article to cleanly install the latest macOS version.

Setting up your Mac

If you did all of the above you may now follow these install instructions to setup a new Mac.

1. Update macOS to the latest version with the App Store

2. Generate a new public and private SSH key by running:

   curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gcw07/dotfiles/main/shell/ssh.sh | sh -s "<your-email-address>"

3. Clone this repo to ~/.dotfiles with:

   git clone git@github.com:gcw07/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles

4. Run the installation with:

   cd .dotfiles
   ./bootstrap.sh

5. After mackup is synced with your cloud storage, restore preferences by running mackup restore

6. Restart your computer to finalize the process

Your Mac is now ready to use!

Notes

When installing these dotfiles for the first time you'll need to backup all of your settings with Mackup. Install Mackup and backup your settings with the commands below. Your settings will be synced to iCloud so you can use them to sync between computers and reinstall them when reinstalling your Mac. If you want to save your settings to a different directory or different storage than iCloud, checkout the documentation. Also make sure your .zshrc file is symlinked from your dotfiles repo to your home directory.

brew install mackup
mackup backup