dotfiles

by Todd Gamblin, tgamblin@llnl.gov

This repo contains tools to help you keep your home directory synchronized across machines.

Overview

To get started there are three easy steps:

1. Fork this repo, then clone it somewhere in your home directory.
2. Put your dotfiles in home and check them in.
3. Run the link script to create symbolic links in your home directory to everything in home.

Now your dotfiles are in a git repo and you can clone them anywhere and keep them synchronized.

Setup

Fork this repo and put your dotfiles in it:

git clone git@github.com:your-name/dotfiles.git .dotfiles
cp .bashrc .bash_profile .emacs .gitconfig .dotfiles/home

Then commit them all to the git repo to keep them synced.

Linking and Unlinking

Setting your environment up on a new machine is now simple:

git clone git@github.com:your-name/dotfiles.git .dotfiles
.dotfiles/link

If something goes wrong, not to worry. link keeps backups in ~/.dotfiles-backup. You can run unlink to delete all the symbolic links and put yourold config files back where they were:

.dotfiles/unlink

Run .dotfiles/help for more information.