joho/dotfiles

dotfiles

John Barton's command-line and editor configuration, kept consistent across personal and work Macs (and the occasional Linux/WSL box).

Install

git clone [email protected]:joho/dotfiles.git ~/Source/personal/dotfiles
cd ~/Source/personal/dotfiles
./install.sh          # symlink configs into $HOME
./install.sh --brew   # also install packages from the Brewfile first

install.sh is idempotent and conservative: it re-links files it already owns, never overwrites a real file (it reports a conflict and leaves it alone), and resolves paths relative to the repo rather than your working directory. It also seeds an empty ~/.zshrc.local for machine-specific and secret config.

What's in here

Secrets & machine-specific config

Nothing secret or machine-specific lives in this repo. zshrc sources ~/.zshrc.local (created empty by install.sh, never tracked) as its last step — put API keys, tokens, and per-machine PATH tweaks there.

Work vs personal git identity

The default identity is personal ([email protected]). Repositories under ~/Source/amber/ automatically switch to the Amber email via a conditional include:

[includeIf "gitdir:~/Source/amber/"]
	path = ~/.gitconfig.amber

If you keep work repos somewhere else, edit that gitdir: path in gitconfig.

Editors

Neovim (nvim/) is the primary editor. The old dein-based vimrc is kept for muscle memory but is frozen — new editor work goes in nvim/.