This is how I go about my digital life on Real Computers™.

To move in:

git init
git remote add github https://github.com/rollcat/dotfiles
git pull github master

Git will complain about overwriting existing files, like .profile. Treat with rm -f and pull again.

For pushing changes, you probably want to use the SSH transport instead:

git remote set-url github [email protected]:rollcat/dotfiles.git

There is a lot of small scripts in bin.

Some are original. Some are borrowed. Some are simplistic remakes of common utilities found on other operating systems or in third-party packages, that I made to make my life less interesting when using very different machines. Take what you like. (See licensing.)

There is some support for per os/arch statically compiled binaries. Go is both wonderful, and really, really awful in this regard.

Many utilities are written in POSIX sh, or in Python 3 (3.6+), if the shell feels inadequate.

Regularly tested: macOS (arm64), OpenBSD (x86-64).

Less tested: Linux (x86-64, arm64), macOS (x86-64).

Lots of environment variables are exported. Notably, $PATH has some automagic detection for hidden/weird things, like ~/.gem/ruby/*/bin, /Applications/**/bin, ~/bin/$(uname -s)-$(uname -m) etc.

Everything is .gitignored with a *. Use git add -f to track a file.

Unless otherwise noted: https://unlicense.org

No attribution necessary, but if you do something cool with any of this, drop me a line.