Personal Dotfiles

These are my personal home-directory dotfiles, managed by chezmoi. This configuration is currently used only on macOS. Much of it would probably apply on Linux also, and some might even be usable on Windows, but this is untested.

Installing

1. Open a Terminal window and run the bootstrap script. Follow the prompts to install Homebrew and the basic packages needed to initialize the home-directory with chezmoi.

   /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kpitt/dotfiles/chezmoi/init.sh)"

2. If Homebrew was not already installed, run this eval command to ensure that the Homebrew directory is in the PATH. Check the sample command shown at the end of the Homebrew installation, because the actual path to the brew command depends on the CPU type (Intel or Apple Silicon).

   eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"

3. Launch "1Password" and sign in, then go to "Preferences -> Developer" and enable the "Use the SSH agent" and "Biometric unlock for 1Password CLI" options.

4. Create a shortcut to the 1Password SSH auth socket (note that this command is all one line).

   mkdir -p ~/.1password && ln -s ~/Library/Group\ Containers/2BUA8C4S2C.com.1password/t/agent.sock ~/.1password/agent.sock

5. Set the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable so Git will use the 1Password SSH agent.

   export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=~/.1password/agent.sock

6. Run the init_age.sh bootstrap script to install the identity file for age encryption.

   /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kpitt/dotfiles/chezmoi/init_age.sh)"

7. Initialize the chezmoi configuration and download the dotfiles repository.

   chezmoi init kpitt -S ~/.dotfiles --branch chezmoi --ssh

8. Edit the file ~/.config/chezmoi/chezmoi.toml and confirm the settings, or modify them as needed.

9. Apply the chezmoi configuration to the home-directory.

   chezmoi apply

10. After chezmoi apply completes successfully, close the terminal window and restart the machine to make sure that any updates to the system settings take effect.