You can clone the repository wherever you want. (I like to keep it in ~/Projects/dotfiles, with ~/dotfiles as a symlink.)

$ git clone https://github.com/olistic/dotfiles.git

When setting up a new Mac, you may want to start by installing some common Homebrew formulae and Cask native apps.

The installation script will install Homebrew with everything inside of Brewfile, as well as Oh My Zsh!

$ ./install.sh

The bootstrapper script will pull in the latest version and copy the dotfiles to your home folder.

$ source bootstrap.sh

If ~/.path exists, it will be sourced along with the other files, before any feature testing (such as detecting which version of ls is being used) takes place.

Here’s an example ~/.path file that adds /usr/local/bin to the $PATH:

export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"

If ~/.extra exists, it will be sourced along with the other files. You can use this to add commands you don’t want to commit to a public repository.

My ~/.extra looks something like this:

# Git credentials
# Not in the repository, to prevent people from accidentally committing under my name
GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="Matias Olivera"
GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
git config --global user.name "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="[email protected]"
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"
git config --global user.email "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"
GIT_SIGNING_KEY="12081D793C943DA0"
git config --global user.signingkey "$GIT_SIGNING_KEY"

You could also use ~/.extra to override settings, functions and aliases from my dotfiles repository. It’s probably better to fork this repository instead, though.

When setting up a new Mac, you may also want to set some sensible macOS defaults:

$ ./macos.sh

• Mathias Bynens and his original dotfiles repository.