John's dotfiles

Personal config files for Bash, Windows PowerShell, PowerShell Core and Vim/Neovim. Works on Linux/Windows/WSL/Cygwin/Git Bash. Good cross platform configuration that works similar on different operatingsystems.

Install

To install these dotfiles and chezmoi which is the software used to easily manage them, just run these commands on a new machine:

Linux / Unix

As your normal user in your home dir run:

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

If you get questions about entering username/password try this command instead:

sh -c "$(curl -fsLS get.chezmoi.io)" -- init --apply --guess-repo-url=false https://github.com/JohnEricson/dotfiles.git

The new config for bash will be used next time you login. To refresh your current session with the new config run:

. ~/.bashrc

Alternative one-liner

This both installs these dotfiles and chezmoi as well as refresh your current session with the new bash config:

. <(curl -sL https://raw.github.com/JohnEricson/dotfiles/main/install.sh)

Windows

This installs chezmoi in the official way in your ~/bin dir. Same way as it's installed on Linux.

Start PowerShell as your normal user and run:

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope CurrentUser

After this in your home dir run (This allows your user to run *.ps1 scripts):

(irm -useb https://get.chezmoi.io/ps1) | powershell -c -

Then run:

~/bin/chezmoi init --apply JohnEricson

Close your PowerShell window and open a new one to refresh your shell with the new config.

Manage configuration

This configuration creates an alias cm that calls the chezmoi command. This is to make chezmoi easier to work with.

Update configuration to latest version on a machine

As your normal user run:

cm update

Git aliases

Install

1. Add this to your ~/.gitconfig file:

[include]
   path = .gitaliases

Aliases

Alias	Description
l	Displays a one-line log of commit history, showing commit hash, date, branch, commit message, and author.
a	Shortcut for git add.
ap	Interactively adds changes to the staging area.
c	Shortcut for git commit --verbose.
ca	Commits all changes, automatically staging tracked files, with verbose mode.
cm	Shortcut for git commit -m, allowing you to specify the commit message directly.
cam	Commits all changes with a specified commit message.
m	Amends the last commit with the changes made in the current working directory, maintaining the previous commit message.
pl	Pull latest changes from remote. Shortcut for git pull
p	Push local changes to remote. Shortcut for git push
d	Shows the difference between the working directory and the index.
ds	Shows the diffstat of changes between the working directory and the index.
dc	Shows the difference between the index and the last commit.
s	Displays a short status showing modified, added, and deleted files.
co	Switch branch. Shortcut for git checkout.
cob	Creates a new branch and switches to it.
b	Lists branches sorted by the last modified date.
bd	Delete local branch. Shortcut for git branch -d
la	Lists all git aliases configured in the .gitconfig file.

Source code for the aliases: ~/.gitaliases

How to use

The git aliases are exposed both in git and in bash so you can for example use s for git status like this:

bash

gs

git/PowerShell

git s