Colourful & robust security-minded configuration files and utilities for Mac, Linux and BSD.

git clone https://github.com/paulmillr/dotfiles.git "$HOME/Developer/personal/dotfiles"
cd "$HOME/Developer/personal/dotfiles"

curl -s https://github.com/paulmillr.gpg | gpg --import
[ "$(git log -1 --format=%GP)" = "78A89CD10959782E23FF8447697079DA6878B89B" ] || { echo 'commit is not signed with the expected key'; exit 1; }
git show --stat --oneline HEAD

./install.sh

The installer performs no network requests; it invokes ./scripts/link.sh from its own checkout. Displaced paths are preserved as .bak, .bak.1, and so on.

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• No external dependencies! Great, when compared to oh-my-zsh or prezto.
• Auto-completion & syntax highlighing for zsh
• Security-minded:
  • The branch names, archives, directory names, and other local users are assumed hostile.
  • The installer doesn't do network and is verifiable / reversible.
  • git offers exactly ONE key to git hosts via IdentitiesOnly=yes
  • git log shows signature status
  • Telemetry is disabled to known scripts via env vars like DO_NOT_TRACK=1
• home has tiny files installed into $HOME - zshrc, bashrc, gitconfig
• config/ has all the important parts:
  • shell/ - zsh & bash setup + extra helper functions
  • git/ - git log formatting
  • vim/ - turns vim into full-fledged mini-IDE, with tree view and other plugins
  • terminal-themes/ - color scheme for apple terminal, iterm and ghostty (where it's shipped by default)
  • ghostty/, vscode/ - some settings for terminal and editor

Specify git author:

git config --global user.name "Diogenes of Sinope"
git config --global user.email "diogenes@barrel.com"

To enable checkboxes in git logs, also add config/git/mailmap:

ME <diogenes@barrel.com> <diogenes@barrel.com>
ME <diogenes@barrel.com> <diogenes@agora.example>

Enable GPG commit signing:

git config --global commit.gpgsign true
git config --global tag.gpgSign true

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2011 Paul Miller (paulmillr.com)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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