Dotfiles

My OS X / Ubuntu dotfiles.

Essentially forked from cowboy. Other inspiration from mathiasbynens.

What, exactly, does the "dotfiles" command do?

When dotfiles is run, it does a few things:

1. Git is installed if necessary, via APT or Homebrew (which is installed if necessary).
2. This repo is cloned into the ~/.dotfiles directory (or updated if it already exists).
3. Files in init are executed (in alphanumeric order).
4. Files in copy are copied into ~/.
5. Files in link are linked into ~/.
6. Files in after are executed (in alphanumeric order).

Note:

• The backups folder only gets created when necessary. Any files in ~/ that would have been overwritten by copy or link get backed up there.
• Files in bin are executable shell scripts (~/.dotfiles/bin is added into the path).
• Files in source get sourced whenever a new shell is opened (in alphanumeric order).
• Files in conf just sit there. If a config file doesn't need to go in ~/, put it in there.
• Files in caches are cached files, only used by some scripts. This folder will only be created if necessary.

Installation

OS X

Notes:

• You need to be an administrator (for sudo).
• You need to have installed XCode Command Line Tools, which are available as a separate, optional (and much smaller) download from XCode.

bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/EndangeredMassa/dotfiles/master/bin/dotfiles)" && source ~/.bashrc

Ubuntu

Notes:

• You need to be an administrator (for sudo).
• If APT hasn't been updated or upgraded recently, it will probably be a few minutes before you see anything.

sudo apt-get -qq update && sudo apt-get -qq upgrade && sudo apt-get -qq install curl && echo &&
bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/EndangeredMassa/dotfiles/master/bin/dotfiles)" && source ~/.bashrc

The ~/ "copy" step

Any file in the copy subdirectory will be copied into ~/. Any file that needs to be modified with personal information (like .gitconfig which contains an email address and private key) should be copied into ~/. Because the file you'll be editing is no longer in ~/.dotfiles, it's less likely to be accidentally committed into your public dotfiles repo.

The ~/ "link" step

Any file in the link subdirectory gets symbolically linked with ln -s into ~/. Edit these, and you change the file in the repo. Don't link files containing sensitive data, or you might accidentally commit that data!

Aliases and Functions

To keep things easy, the ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_profile files are extremely simple, and should never need to be modified. Instead, add your aliases, functions, settings, etc into one of the files in the source subdirectory, or add a new file. They're all automatically sourced when a new shell is opened.

License

MIT

See http://benalman.com/about/license/ for original license information.