doodwow does dotfiles

Your dotfiles are how you personalize your system. These are mine.

Warning: If you want to give these dotfiles a try, you should first fork this repository, review the code, and remove things you don’t want or need. Don’t blindly use my settings unless you know what that entails. Use at your own risk!

Setup

Connect to GitHub with SSH

• See https://help.github.com/articles/connecting-to-github-with-ssh/

Install Xcode Command Line Tools

xcode-select --install

Install

git clone git@github.com:ashokm/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles
cd ~/.dotfiles
./bootstrap.sh --install

This will symlink the files in ~/.dotfiles/dotfiles to your home directory. Everything is configured and tweaked within ~/.dotfiles.

Specify the $PATH

If ~/.path exists, it will be sourced along with the other files, before any feature testing takes place.

Here’s an example ~/.path file that adds /usr/local/bin to the $PATH:

export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"

Add custom commands

If ~/.extra exists, it will be sourced along with the other files. You can use this to add a few custom commands without the need to fork this entire repository, or to add commands you don’t want to commit to a public repository.

My ~/.extra looks something like this (and I use githome and gitwork aliases to switch between home and work email addresses):

# Git credentials
GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="Ashok Manji"
GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
git config --global user.name "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"

GIT_HOME_EMAIL="home.username@company.com"
GIT_WORK_EMAIL="work.username@company.com"
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="$GIT_HOME_EMAIL"
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$GIT_HOME_EMAIL"
git config --global user.email "$GIT_HOME_EMAIL"

GITREVIEW_USERNAME="Ashok.Manji"
git config --global gitreview.username "$GITREVIEW_USERNAME"

Sensible macOS defaults

When setting up a new Mac, you may want to set some sensible macOS defaults:

./scripts/macos.sh

Uninstall

cd ~/.dotfiles
./bootstrap.sh --uninstall
rm -rf ~/.dotfiles

Screenshots

TODO

• Create helper.sh to include helper functions for log and error usage in bash scripts to prevent duplication in scripts

Thanks to…

A decent amount of the code in these dotfiles stem or are inspired from the below projects.

• Mathias Bynens
• Zach Holman's