KBkbd·Oct 10, 2019
Here's the equivalent setting for zsh:
https://github.com/kbd/setup/blob/2e61b4d22adfadd05dbb4a7b95...
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3 sourcesSure: https://github.com/kbd/setup
Here's my git config with a bajillion aliases: https://github.com/kbd/setup/blob/master/HOME/.config/git/co...
Since git commands are one of the most common things to type, I alias all short git aliases like so: https://github.com/kbd/setup/blob/fd1f826a9365895b7a3b8b5c58...
(link to particular commit so line numbers stay correct). That way my workflow looks like:
$ ga (fuzzy find files to add)
$ gcm "commit message"
etc.
In Better Bash History (2012)I keep all my config source controlled and have my own setup program that creates symlinks and so on, along with a "bootstrap" script that starts from a clean Mac and installs and configures everything I need:
https://github.com/kbd/setup/blob/master/bootstrap.py
There are still some things that are manual:
* some macOS settings that can't easily be set via "defaults write"
* VS Code makes it hard to source control its settings, so I use the settings sync extension, but that requires manual config of the gist id and access token. It's super frustrating that a programmer's editor makes it hard to source control its settings!
* iterm2's config system is frustrating as well, with user-level config (eg. colors) mixed in with things like window positions and "last time checked for updates" timestamps. So I pretty much set up my last good confi
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g for it and then run 'git update-index --assume-unchanged' on its config so I don't have to see the file constantly dirty in my repo.