From the excellent dotfiles page on GitHub:

Why would I want my dotfiles on GitHub?

• Backup, restore, and sync the prefs and settings for your toolbox. Your dotfiles might be the most important files on your machine.
• Learn from the community. Discover new tools for your toolbox and new tricks for the ones you already use.
• Share what you've learned with the rest of us.

This is my Unix development configuration. I predominantly work on macOS using iTerm2 as my terminal of choice. The majority of tools are configured for developing with Ruby, Javascript, Go and Elixir in Vim.

Clone and Install

This repository includes a no-frills shell script to setup symbolic links to the home directory.

git clone --recursive git://github.com/orien/dotfiles.git  ~/.dotfiles
~/.dotfiles/script/setup

When bootstrapping a new Apple computer, I use strap. This handles downloading my dotfiles repo and running the setup script for me.

git clone https://github.com/MikeMcQuaid/strap.git
 export STRAP_GITHUB_USER=???
 export STRAP_GITHUB_TOKEN=???
strap/bin/strap.sh