So, now that I've got my initial dotfiles sync setup done on Mac, it's time to try porting it over to WSL! You might notice this is a super short snippet of a post, which in this case is a good thing. Homebrew is able to run on linux, so I just needed to follow these instructions to get it running. Since I also wanted to use my same set of dotfiles cross platform, I did need to make a few small changes to those.
First, in my .zshrc I needed to alias brew to the linux install when the operating system is linux. I added the lines below to achieve this.
if [[ $OSTYPE == "gnu-linux" ]]; then
eval $(/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/brew shellenv)
fi
Other than that I did need to update a few aliases to no longer reference file paths specifically and instead use $HOME which, since we're on linux, works well enough.
What about files that are for Mac specific apps? I mentioned using iTerm scripting in my first post, and I do version control those scripts. How should I ignore them on platforms that don't need to be concerned with them?
For these files I ran git update-index --assume-unchanged and then deleted the local file. This is pretty manual still, but there are very few incompatible files that I needed to run it for. I’ll probably try to automate things a bit more in the next part when we move to Windows!
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