My dotfiles

Most of the ideas here are taken from the numerous other dotfiles repositories on GitHub.

Install

Checkout this repo into ~/.dotfiles. Then install the dotfiles:

rake install

This rake task will not replace existing files, but it will replace existing symlinks.

The dotfiles will be symlinked, e.g. ~/.bash_profile symlinked to ~/.dotfiles/bash_profile.

<.replace>

If e.g. ~/.dotfiles/gitconfig contains <.replace github-token> then

• that bit will be replaced with the contents of ~/.github-token
• the resulting file will be written to ~/.dotfiles/gitconfig directly, not symlinked

So if you want to make changes to that file, make them in ~/dotfiles/gitconfig and then run rake install again.

Changes to symlinked files without <.replace> bits do not require a rake install on every change as they're symlinked.

Vim

I'm assuming MacVim (brew install macvim) and at least Vim 7.

Vim plugins are each their own directory under vim/bundles thanks to Pathogen.

Most are included in this repository as git submodules, so you need to fetch them after cloning this repository:

git submodule update --init