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A setup you can't reproduce is a setup you'll eventually lose. Hard drives fail, Macs get replaced, and without a dotfiles repo everything built in this series disappears with them. This final part covers packaging everything into a maintainable dotfiles repo and wrapping up the series.

The Dotfiles Repo

A dotfiles repo is a version-controlled collection of your configuration files. The goal is simple: clone the repo on a new machine, follow the checklist, and have a fully configured environment in under an hour.

mkdir ~/dotfiles cd ~/dotfiles git init

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Copy all configuration files in:

# Claude Code mkdir -p .claude/hooks cp ~/.claude/statusline.sh .claude/statusline.sh cp ~/.claude/hooks/notify-stop.sh .claude/hooks/notify-stop.sh cp ~/.claude/hooks/notify-permission.sh .claude/hooks/notify-permission.sh cp ~/.claude/settings.json .claude/settings.json

# Terminal cp…