dotfiles

This is the very first repo to clone after switch to a new machine. The purposes of this repo are listed below.

• Automation

  Shell script makes it easy to automating installing softwares and setting up your development environment.

• Repeating operations

  For example, backup files.

• Saving Time

  Spend time writing a script and save time at some time in the future.

• Config files

  Config files can be shared between machines or operating systems. Don't waste time to google it and configure it again and again.

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• Other Intents

  IOT stuff.

Install

curl -Lks https://github.com/eynol/dotfiles/raw/master/scripts/install-dotfiles.sh | /bin/bash

The install script does the following things.

• Clone this repo to $HOME/.cfg
• Make dir .config-backup for backuping existing config files
• Try checkout files
  • if checkout error, rerun again to use egrep "\s+" to select files and mv these files to .config-backup
• In the end, git config status.showUntrackedFiles no

When install is done, reload your shell or source your rc file. You can use config as git command to manage your dotfiles.

Instruction

Check out this article: https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles and github.com/durdn/cfg.

It shows a simple way to backup your dotfiles.

How Dotfiles Work

bootstrap

Basicly, it use .zshrc or .bashrc to source other config files.

# - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
#
# read common shared config
[ -s "$HOME/.shell.rc.sh" ] && source $HOME/.shell.rc.sh

In the $HOME/.shell.rc.sh, it does the following things.

• Add $HOME/bin to $PATH, so that we can use local binaries

• Add device private scripts to $PATH in $HOME/device-scripts

• Set environment variables: RUSTUP_DIST_SERVER

• Source $HOME/.shell.secret.sh if it exists

• Source $HOME/.shell.device.sh if it exists

• Define editor: export EDITOR=nvim

• Define aliases:

  • lg : lazygit
  • t :
  • v : $EDITOR
  • config : git --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME
  • lazyconfig: lazygit --git-dir=$HOME/.cfg/ --work-tree=$HOME

• Os related configs

git config

git can use includeIf to include different config files based on the remote url.

[includeIf "hasconfig:remote.*.url:git@gitlab.com:*/**"]
  path = ~/.gitconfig.github