~/.*

Dotfiles for exactly two machines:

• a main macOS machine
• an Ubuntu VPS named box

Fresh machine setup

On first apply, chezmoi prompts for the passphrase for key.txt.age and writes the decrypted key to ~/.config/chezmoi/key.txt via run_onchange_before_decrypt-private-key.sh.tmpl.

macOS main machine

1. Install Xcode Command Line Tools.

xcode-select --install

2. Install Homebrew before the first apply.

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

This repo runs brew bundle during apply through run_onchange_01_install-homebrew.sh.tmpl. It does not install Homebrew for you.

3. Make sure GitHub SSH access works.

.chezmoiexternal.toml pulls external repos via git@github.com:..., even if the main repo is cloned over HTTPS.

4. Install chezmoi.

brew install chezmoi

5. Initialize and apply the repo.

chezmoi init --apply git@github.com:tifandotme/dotfiles.git

If you prefer HTTPS for the main repo, that also works:

chezmoi init --apply https://github.com/tifandotme/dotfiles.git

Ubuntu VPS

1. Install base packages.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y curl git

2. Install chezmoi with the official installer.

sh -c "$(curl -fsLS get.chezmoi.io)" -- init --apply $GITHUB_USERNAME

3. Make sure GitHub SSH access works.

The main repo can be cloned over HTTPS, but .chezmoiexternal.toml still uses SSH URLs for external repos.

4. Initialize and apply the repo.

chezmoi init --apply git@github.com:tifandotme/dotfiles.git

If chezmoi is not on your path yet, run it from ~/.local/bin/chezmoi.

On Ubuntu, chezmoi will skip the macOS-only files. Host-specific files for box still apply.

Open a new terminal session after bootstrap so new tools and shell config are on your path.