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This repository serves as my way to help me setup and maintain my Mac. It takes the effort out of installing everything manually. Everything needed to install my preferred setup of macOS is detailed in this readme. Feel free to explore, learn and copy parts for your own dotfiles. Enjoy!

📖 -Read the blog post
📺 -Watch the screencast on Laracasts
💡 -Learn how to build your own dotfiles

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These instructions are for setting up new Mac devices. Instead, if you want to get started building your own dotfiles, you canfind those instructions below.

If you're migrating from an existing Mac, you should first make sure to backup all of your existing data. Go through the checklist below to make sure you didn't forget anything before you migrate.

• Did you commit and push any changes/branches to your git repositories?
• Did you remember to save all important documents from non-iCloud directories?
• Did you save all of your work from apps which aren't synced through iCloud?
• Did you remember to export important data from your local database?
• Did you updatemackup to the latest version and ranmackup backup?

After backing up your old Mac you may now follow these install instructions to setup a new one.

1. Update macOS to the latest version through system preferences

2. Setup an SSH key by using one of the two following methods
   2.1. If you use 1Password, install it with the 1PasswordSSH agent and sync your SSH keys locally.
   2.2. Otherwisegenerate a new public and private SSH key by running:

   curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anthonysexton/dotfiles/HEAD/ssh.sh| sh -s"<your-email-address>"

3. Clone this repo to~/.dotfiles with:

   git clone --recursive git@github.com:anthonysexton/dotfiles.git~/.dotfiles

4. Run the installation with:

   cd~/.dotfiles&& ./fresh.sh

5. StartHerd.app and run its install process

6. After mackup is synced with your cloud storage, restore preferences by runningmackup restore

7. Restart your computer to finalize the process

Your Mac is now ready to use!

💡 You can use a different location than~/.dotfiles if you want. Make sure you also update the references in the.zshrc andfresh.sh files.

After you've set up your new Mac you may want to wipe and clean install your old Mac. Followthis article to do that. Remember tobackup your data first!

Please note that the instructions below assume you already have set up Oh My Zsh so make sure to firstinstall Oh My Zsh before you continue.

If you want to start with your own dotfiles from this setup, it's pretty easy to do so. First of all you'll need to fork this repo. After that you can tweak it the way you want.

Go through the.macos file and adjust the settings to your liking. You can find much more settings atthe original script by Mathias Bynens andKevin Suttle's macOS Defaults project.

Check out theBrewfile file and adjust the apps you want to install for your machine. Usetheir search page to check if the app you want to install is available.

Check out thealiases.zsh file and add your own aliases. If you need to tweak your$PATH check out thepath.zsh file. These files get loaded in because the$ZSH_CUSTOM setting points to the.dotfiles directory. You can adjust the.zshrc file to your liking to tweak your Oh My Zsh setup. More info about how to customize Oh My Zsh can be foundhere.

When installing these dotfiles for the first time you'll need to backup all of your settings with Mackup. Install Mackup and backup your settings with the commands below. Your settings will be synced to iCloud so you can use them to sync between computers and reinstall them when reinstalling your Mac. If you want to save your settings to a different directory or different storage than iCloud,checkout the documentation. Also make sure your.zshrc file is symlinked from your dotfiles repo to your home directory.

brew install mackupmackup backup

You can tweak the shell theme, the Oh My Zsh settings and much more. Go through the files in this repo and tweak everything to your liking.

Enjoy your own Dotfiles!

I first got the idea for starting this project by visiting theGitHub does dotfiles project. BothZach Holman andMathias Bynens were great sources of inspiration.Sourabh Bajaj'sMac OS X Setup Guide proved to be invaluable. Thanks to@subnixr forhis awesome Zsh theme! Thanks toCaneco for the header in this readme. And lastly, I'd like to thankEmma Fabre forher excellent presentation on Homebrew which made me migrate a lot to aBrewfile andMackup.

In general, I'd like to thank every single one who open-sources their dotfiles for their effort to contribute something to the open-source community.