My dotfiles

This directory contains the dotfiles for my mac system which probably won't work on yours.

Repository and Installations needed

Install Homebrew

• Install homebrew.

curl -fsSL -o install.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh

• Execute the script with the bash command /bin/bash install.sh

Enter your password and proceed yes to confirm the installation if it prompts you to

Homebrew extras required

• brew install eza fzf fd stow bat zoxide

fzf-git

• git clone https://github.com/junegunn/fzf-git.sh.git

Tmux

Installation

• brew install tmux Tmux plugins manager
• git clone https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tpm ~/.tmux/plugins/tpm

Git

If not already installed in the home directory

• Check this by running git --version in the shell to see if the command is available
• If not, it will most likely prompt you to install it but make sure Xcode Command Line tools is installed.

Install Git with Homebrew ( My Default )

• Manually Install git with Homebrew brew install git
• brew installs git on mac at /usr/local/bin/git

Install Git via Xcode

• Install Xcode usign xcode-select --install
• xcode installs git at /usr/bin/git

GNU Stow

• Refer the docs : Read More

brew install stow

Update path in rc file with using GNU Stow

• already have .zshrc file ready to go
• If not ,then just to make sure this path below is added to .zshrc

# Add Homebrew's executable directory to the front of the PATH in .zshrc
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH

• then in your shell source ~/.zshrc

Installation of this repo using stow

First, check out dotfiles repo in your $HOME directory using git

$ git clone [email protected]:Sin-cy/dotfiles.git
$ cd dotfiles

then use GNU stow to create symlinks(make sure you are in your dotfiles directory)

stow .

or

search for the stow command to make sure again