Personal dotfiles, managed with chezmoi. zsh · starship · Ghostty · tmux · Neovim (LazyVim). Secret-free and public-safe by design, so the same repo can be pulled onto both personal and work machines.

Rebuilt in 2026 from a holman/dotfiles fork that dates back to 2010 — now entirely my own code: holman's framework and every borrowed script are gone, leaving only the bin/ tools I wrote myself.

.chezmoiroot        -> "home"  (tells chezmoi the source tree lives under home/)
Brewfile            package manifest (used by the installer, not symlinked)
docs/               notes & verification screenshots
home/               EVERYTHING under here is applied to $HOME by chezmoi
  dot_zshrc            -> ~/.zshrc
  dot_config/...       -> ~/.config/...
  .chezmoi.toml.tmpl   init-time prompts (name / email / work machine?)

Files outside home/ (this README, the Brewfile, docs) are repo metadata and are never written into $HOME.

# Installs chezmoi if needed, clones this repo to ~/.dotfiles, prompts for
# name/email/work-machine, then applies everything.
sh -c "$(curl -fsLS get.chezmoi.io)" -- init --apply \
  --source="$HOME/.dotfiles" polymetis/dotfiles

The run_once_ scripts then install Homebrew (if missing) and the package stack, bootstrap tmux's plugin manager, and sync LazyVim's plugins.

A few system-level steps can't be automated (login shell, GUI-app PATH, fonts) — see docs/notes/macos-setup.md.

The terminal/editor font is Operator Mono SSm, which is proprietary and is not included in this repo. Place the .otf files in ~/operator mono before running, and the font installer copies them into ~/Library/Fonts. Nerd Font icon glyphs come from a runtime fallback (Symbols Nerd Font, installed via Homebrew) — Operator Mono itself stays pristine.

Nothing secret lives in this repo. Machine-specific values (git email, etc.) are filled in by the chezmoi init prompts. Anything genuinely sensitive (VAULT_ADDR, tokens, work-only env) goes in ~/.config/zsh/local.zsh, which is sourced last by ~/.zshrc and is never tracked by chezmoi or git.

chezmoi edit ~/.zshrc     # edit the source of a managed file
chezmoi diff              # preview pending changes
chezmoi apply             # apply them
chezmoi cd                # jump into the source tree (~/.dotfiles/home)
chezmoi update            # git pull + apply