stevenbaker's dotfiles

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Introduction

Common problem: When the commandline is your home, SSH'ing into a new box feels like moving into an empty apartment.

Solution: This repo. It's my way to quickly and easily get my current shell environment to something that feels familiar, across a variety of setups:

• Local Mac OS machine
• Remote Linux instances
• Vagrant boxes

If you like this, please also see:

• dotfiles.github.io - a collection of many similar 'dotfiles' repos
• mathias's dotfiles - the masterclass effort - this repo strongly inspired by his

Installation

Using Git + install script

Clone the repository wherever you want on disk.

# HTTPS
git clone https://github.com/stevenbaker/dotfiles.git && cd dotfiles

# SSH
git clone git@github.com:stevenbaker/dotfiles.git && cd dotfiles

To copy the repo's dotfiles into your home directory, run the boostrap script:

source install.sh

Note that this will overwrite any existing files of the same name that you have in your home directory. Because of this, a confirmation prompt is shown.

You can avoid the confirmation prompt:

set -- -f; source install.sh

Git-free install

The following command will install the dotfiles directly to your home directory without using Git:

cd; curl -#L https://github.com/stevenbaker/dotfiles/tarball/master | tar xzv --strip-components 1 --exclude={README.md,install.sh,LICENSE}

Adding local / custom settings

Occasionally, you will have extra commands or settings that you would like in your local BASH environment that do not make sense to commit to a public repository. A good example of this would be your personal git user.name and user.email.

Or, you may desire to override existing settings from this dotfiles repository on a case-by-case basis.

Please put any such settings into ~/.bash_extras:

# Git credentials
# Not in the dotfiles repository
GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="Steve Baker"
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="stevenbaker@mailinator.com"
GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"
git config --global user.name "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
git config --global user.email "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"

If this exists in your home directory, it will be sourced. But it should not be checked into source control.

Feedback

Would love to hear what you think.