.dotfiles for macOS

What is this?

This repository services as a way to help setup and maintain my Mac. Consider this repository a fork of Dries Vints dotfiles. For full instructions on a fresh macOS setup, follow the directions on Dries' repo.

This version is expecting a Mac with Apple Silicon chipset.

Steps to Setup your Mac

These instructions are for when you've already set up your dotfiles.

Before you re-install

First, go through the checklist below to make sure you didn't forget anything before you wipe your hard drive.

• 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 export the Raycast config?
• Did you copy all the projects from the project folder?
• Did you update mackup to the latest version and ran mackup backup?

Setting up your Mac

1. Update macOS to the latest version with the App Store

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

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

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

   git clone [email protected]:stefro/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles

4. Run the installation with:

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

5. Start Herd.app and run its install process

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

7. Restart your computer to finalize the process

Your Mac is now ready to use!

Thanks to...

• Dries Vints for creating the base of the Dotfiles
• Todd Smith Salter for this checklist and readme.