JangoSteve's dotfiles

These are my dotfiles. The structure and method for keeping track of these was inspired largely by ryanb and holman, but with some changes.

Installation

git clone git://github.com/JangoSteve/dotfiles.git
cd dotfiles
rake install

For the bash profile enhancements to work, you'll want to include this in your ~/.bash_profile file if it's not already there:

# Find all .sh files and .sh files in subdirectories - ss
for file in $(find ~/.bash_profile_includes -name '*.sh'); do
  [[ -r $file ]] && source $file;
done

Organization

All my dotfiles go somewhere in my home folder ~/. I wanted a simple way to keep track of these files that didn't make too many assumptions about the files' target names or locations. For example, I didn't want to automatically assume that they'd all start with a dot. This led to the conventions I made up.

Naming conventions

Anything in the home folder of this project will be symlinked by the install script to your actual home folder (stored in ENV['HOME']). It will go in the same relative location it is to the /home folder, with one modification.

It was hard to browse my dotfiles in this repo with most of them being hidden, so within this repo, they start with _. instead. Thus, /home/_.example/_.somefile => ~/.example/.somefile.

ERB

There are some files, like .giconfig, that require specific credentials. Inspired by ryanb's dotfiles, I used erb to prompt the user to enter the required info when the install script runs.