my.dotfiles for macOS

Unix like operating systems use dotfiles for application configuration management.
These are my dotfiles. There are many like them, but these are mine -- managed with GNU Stow.

Installation

1. Backup existing profiles.

mv ~/.zshrc ~/.zshrc.bkup
mv ~/.bashrc ~/.bashrc.bkup
mv ~/.bash_profile ~/.bash_profile
mv ~/.profile ~/.profile.bkup

2. Install GNU Stow.

brew install stow

3. Clone my.dotfiles repository.

git clone [email protected]:professionalSmith/my.dotfiles.git

4. Stow stow & shell

cd ~/my.dotfiles/packages
stow --target ../.. stow
stow --target ../.. shell
exec zsh

5. Stow away

• Stow packages of interest as was done for the stow and shell packages.
• Rename existing files to file.bkup if Stow warns about conflicting files.

Removing Packages

cd ~/my.dotfiles/packages
stow -D --target ../.. <package-name>
exec zsh