dotfiles Configuration

Modeled after Thoughtbot's dotfiles, this repository is my personal home directory configuration.

Install

Clone onto your laptop:

    git clone git://github.com/SeanSith/dotfiles.git

Install rcm:

    brew tap thoughtbot/formulae
    brew install rcm

Install the dotfiles:

    env RCRC=$HOME/.dotfiles/rcrc rcup

This command will create symlinks for config files in your home directory. Setting the RCRC environment variable tells rcup to use standard configuration options:

• Exclude the README.md and LICENSE files, which are part of the dotfiles repository but do not need to be symlinked in.
• Give precedence to personal overrides which by default are placed in ~/.dotfiles-local

You can safely run rcup multiple times to update:

rcup

Known Bugs

• Initial installation broken
  • The default .rcrc file would not move out of the way for the system-specific one. Therefore we removed it from the repository. It needs to go back.
  • For now, source the system-specific .rcrc file to make it sort of work.
• rcm does not currently support tag- or host-specific hooks.
  • Currently these post-up hooks "work" because we let rcm put them in a ~/.hooks directory and we force-run them from the default post-up hook.
  • thoughtbot/rcm#48 slated for rcm 1.3.0 (CLOSED, WONTFIX)

Thanks

Thanks go to Thoughtbot for the inspiration and examples in their own dotfiles repository.

License

dotfiles is copyright © 2015 Sean Smith. It is free software, and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the LICENSE file.