lkgarrison does dotfiles

Dotfiles

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

This setup prioritizes keeping files short and organized by separating things into topic-specific folders (i.e. Git setup.sh, git config, git ignore, and git aliases all go in the git/ folder).

Install

Run this:

git clone https://github.com/lkgarrison/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles
cd ~/.dotfiles
script/bootstrap

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

Topical

Everything's built around topic areas. If you're adding a new area to your forked dotfiles — say, "Java" — you can simply add a java directory and put files in there. Anything with an extension of .bash will get automatically included into your shell. Anything with an extension of .symlink will get symlinked without extension into $HOME when you run script/bootstrap.

What's inside

A lot of stuff. Check thing out with the file browser above and see what components may mesh up with you. Fork it, remove what you don't use, and build on what you do use.

Components

There's a few special files in the hierarchy.

• bin/: Anything in bin/ will get added to your $PATH and be made available everywhere.
• topic/*.bash: Any files ending in .bash get loaded into your environment (i.e. aliases.bash, completion.bash, etc).
• topic/*.symlink: Any files ending in *.symlink get symlinked into your $HOME. This is so you can keep all of your dotfiles versioned in your dotfiles repo but still keep them easily accessible in your home directory. These get symlinked in when you run script/bootstrap.

Thanks

I forked my dotfiles setup from https://github.com/holman/dotfiles