This directory contains machine-specific configurations that are loaded based on the hostname or a profile name.

1. Create a profile file named after your machine's hostname or a custom name:

   • profiles/work.zsh - Work machine profile
   • profiles/personal.zsh - Personal machine profile
   • profiles/MacBook-Pro.zsh - Hostname-based profile

2. Set the DOTFILES_PROFILE environment variable (optional):

   export DOTFILES_PROFILE="work"

3. If DOTFILES_PROFILE is not set, the system will try to load a profile matching your hostname.

1. profiles/default.zsh (always loaded if exists)
2. profiles/$DOTFILES_PROFILE.zsh OR profiles/$(hostname -s).zsh
3. profiles/local.zsh (always loaded if exists, for machine-specific overrides)

profiles/*.zsh are sourced from .zprofile, which runs before Prezto and therefore before compinit. Anything that needs compdef has to go in a .post.zsh file instead; runcom/.zshrc sources those at the very end, after Prezto:

1. profiles/$DOTFILES_LOADED_PROFILE.post.zsh
2. profiles/local.post.zsh

Put here anything that registers completions or key bindings:

# profiles/local.post.zsh

# gcloud completion. Sourced from .zprofile this runs a second full compinit,
# because the guard inside completion.zsh.inc only short-circuits once compdef
# exists.
source "$HOME/google-cloud-sdk/completion.zsh.inc"

# Any other `<tool> init zsh` or `<tool> completion zsh` output.

PATH additions do not belong here. .zprofile normalises and deduplicates PATH right after .profile returns, so an entry added from a .post.zsh file escapes both the /../ cleanup and typeset -U. Keep those in the plain *.zsh profile, which runs before that step — gcloud's path.zsh.inc stays in local.zsh, and only completion.zsh.inc moves.

# profiles/work.zsh

# Work-specific Git configuration
export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="you@company.com"
export GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="you@company.com"

# Work-specific aliases
alias vpn="open /Applications/CompanyVPN.app"
alias jira="open https://company.atlassian.net"

# Work proxy settings
# export http_proxy="http://proxy.company.com:8080"

# Additional PATH entries
prepend-path "$HOME/work/scripts"

# Load work-specific Brewfile
# export HOMEBREW_BUNDLE_FILE="$DOTFILES_DIR/profiles/Brewfile.work"

• default.zsh - Base settings loaded on all machines
• personal.zsh - Personal machine settings
• work.zsh - Work machine settings
• local.zsh - Machine-specific overrides (gitignored)