mwyman-shell-config

I've needed to recreate my bash shell profile more often than I care to, and set up a Github repo that would contain my shell environment.

Automated Setup

To configure your shell, it is recommended to use the following script (change "mwyman-shell-config" to be whatever path you want):

GITHUB_SHELL_DEST=${HOME}/.mwyman-shell-config
git clone https://github.com/mwyman/mwyman-shell-config.git ${GITHUB_SHELL_DEST}
(cd ${GITHUB_SHELL_DEST}; git submodule init; git submodule update)
${GITHUB_SHELL_DEST}/setup.py

Manual Setup

To configure your shell to use the Github configuration, add the following lines to the various configuration files.

Please keep the "Begin"/"End" comments in the files, as there may be an automated setup script coming that will honor these to ensure it doesn't double-configure.

Bash

Add the following lines to your .bashrc, .bash_profile, or .profile file (depending on your system):

# Begin Github shell config
# Setup my preferred bash settings (based on my github branch).
export GITHUB_SHELL_CONFIG=${HOME}/.mwyman-shell-config
if [ -e "${GITHUB_SHELL_CONFIG}/bash/profile.sh" ]; then
  source "${GITHUB_SHELL_CONFIG}/bash/profile.sh"
fi
# End Github shell config

Zsh

Add the following lines to your .zshrc:

# Begin Github shell config
export GITHUB_SHELL_CONFIG=${HOME}/.mwyman-shell-config
if [ -e "${GITHUB_SHELL_CONFIG}/zsh/zshrc.sh" ]; then
  source "${GITHUB_SHELL_CONFIG}/zsh/zshrc.sh"
fi
# End Github shell cofig

Vim

Add the following lines to your ~/.vimrc file:

" Begin Github vim config
so ${GITHUB_SHELL_CONFIG}/vim/vimrc.vim
" End Github vim config

Git

Add the following lines to your ~/.gitconfig file (please note that it does not seem that Git yet supports ${HOME} or other environment variables in the config).

# Begin Github git config
[include]
  path = <_path to repo_>/git/config.gitconfig
[core]
  excludesfile = <_path to repo_>/git/config.gitignore
# End Github git config

Mercurial

Add the following lines to your ~/.hgrc file.

# Begin Github hg config
%include <_path to repo>/hg/config.hgrc
# End Github hg config