I keep my dotfiles in a Github repository, alongside with a list of things to set up manually. There is a script I copied from somebody's dotfiles repo that does the symlinks. If I update a dotfile on one machine, I just pull from the other. I also have a .bash_profile_priv file that I load from .bash_profile but do not commit, so that I can set there env variables and such that only make sense for one machine or are secrets.
I also keep an install script that installs various packages and apps via brew, and detailed instructions how to configure manually the system and certain apps to my liking.
Spending time on this repo paid off big time. I have re-installed the system more than 5 times now using this repo and I can't imagine not having it. I don't have to think much during the process, I just follow my list :).
Ohhhh, symlinks 🤦♀️ Of course!
Thanks for sharing. I also use github to manage my dotfiles and I've been thinking about how I wanted to manage syncing them without making my home folder a git repo. I was halfway through setting up some bash scripts with rsync, but symlinks are so much less effort and will work better.
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I keep my dotfiles in a Github repository, alongside with a list of things to set up manually. There is a script I copied from somebody's dotfiles repo that does the symlinks. If I update a dotfile on one machine, I just pull from the other. I also have a
.bash_profile_privfile that I load from.bash_profilebut do not commit, so that I can set there env variables and such that only make sense for one machine or are secrets.I also keep an install script that installs various packages and apps via brew, and detailed instructions how to configure manually the system and certain apps to my liking.
Spending time on this repo paid off big time. I have re-installed the system more than 5 times now using this repo and I can't imagine not having it. I don't have to think much during the process, I just follow my list :).
Ohhhh, symlinks 🤦♀️ Of course!
Thanks for sharing. I also use github to manage my dotfiles and I've been thinking about how I wanted to manage syncing them without making my home folder a git repo. I was halfway through setting up some bash scripts with rsync, but symlinks are so much less effort and will work better.