dotfiles

Personal dotfiles and macOS workstation provisioning.

Quick start

# Lightweight bootstrap: symlinks, shell config, utilities
./bootstrap.sh

# Full macOS provisioning (Homebrew, defaults, apps, shortcuts)
./macos_setup.sh [work|personal|server]

Repo-local GitHub SSH override

This repo's remote is git@github.com:soldni/dotfiles.git, but on this machine the global ~/.ssh/config can inject the wrong identity via a broad Host * stanza. Setting only -i ~/.ssh/personal is not enough, because SSH still reads the global config and may offer another key first.

If git push starts authenticating as the wrong GitHub account, set a repo-local SSH command that ignores global SSH config entirely:

git config core.sshCommand 'ssh -F /dev/null -i ~/.ssh/personal -o IdentitiesOnly=yes'

Why this works:

• -F /dev/null tells ssh not to read ~/.ssh/config.
• -i ~/.ssh/personal pins the key for this repo.
• -o IdentitiesOnly=yes prevents ssh from offering extra identities from the agent or config.

Verify it with:

GIT_TRACE=1 git push --dry-run origin HEAD

You should see Git invoke ssh -F /dev/null -i ~/.ssh/personal -o IdentitiesOnly=yes ... and the dry run should succeed.

What's here

• Shell config -- .bashrc (shared by bash/zsh), .tmux.conf, .vimrc
• Editor/terminal settings -- Ghostty, Zed, VS Code, Cursor, Sublime Text, iTerm2
• macOS app preferences -- backed up and restored via plist_manager.sh using defaults export/import (quits and relaunches apps automatically)
• macOS defaults and shortcuts -- macos_setup.sh, macos_shortcuts.sh
• Utility scripts -- home-symlink/.local/scripts/

App preference sync

# Back up all tracked app preferences
./plist_manager.sh backup

# Restore all tracked app preferences
./plist_manager.sh restore

The script derives the app name from the preference domain, quits it before export/import, and relaunches afterward. Sensitive keys (license, email, etc.) are stripped automatically during backup.

See AGENTS.md for full details.