venekamp/dotfiles

Collection of dotfiles

dotfiles

Setup and configuration

Dotfiles make use of a bare git repository, i.e. the git repo data is not stored as part of the working directory. Therefor an alias is defined that is a wrapper around the git command and setting the --git-dir and --work-dir to different locations.

Start by setting up an alias for working with a bare repository:

alias dotfiles='git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME'

Configure the repository to not track files. If file tracking is allowed you will see all untracked files in your root and that's probably a lot.

dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no

Checking out the dotfiles is done by:

mkdir $HOME/.dotfiles
dotfiles init
dotfiles config --global init.defaultBranch main
dotfiles remote add origin [email protected]:venekamp/dotfiles.git
dotfiles pull origin main

Base16 shell colour theme

In order to get a better colour theme for the shell, check out the following repo. The zshell configuration is configured to use themes from base16

git clone https://github.com/chriskempson/base16-shell.git ~/.config/base16-shell

Z Shell

• Add auto completion
• Add Homwbrew support
• alias ls='ls --color'
• alias ll='ls -ls'
• alias la='ls -lsa'
• Use nvim: alias vim=nvim
• Theming: base 16
• Setup git for dotfiles: dotfiles='git --git-dir=$HOME/.dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME'

Install Homebrew for additional packages

Install npm

Some neovim plugins require npm to be installed:

brew install npm

Neovim