Dotfiles

This is a set of standard config files including git, bash, ack. It works by cloning the repository into a folder and setting up soft links.

How to use

• Clone the repository into ~/dotfiles/
• Create soft links from your home directory to the files in the repository

bash_profile

$ ln -s ~/dotfiles/bash_profile ~/.bash_profile
$ ln -s ~/dotfiles/bash_profile_includes ~/.bash_profile_includes

netrc (for git)

$ ln -s ~/dotfiles/netrc ~/.netrc

ack, git, irb

$ ln -s ~/dotfiles/ackrc ~/.ackrc
$ ln -s ~/dotfiles/gitconfig ~/.gitconfig
$ ln -s ~/dotfiles/inputrc ~/.inputrc
$ ln -s ~/dotfiles/irbrc ~/.irbrc

Summary of Changes

bash_profile

• Color prompt that displays git branch
• Color output from git diff

ackrc

• Adds coffeescript extension as a type
• ignores ruby mine project directories

gitconfig

• Added a variety of git aliases
• Assigned mergetool to diffmerge

inputrc

• Allow up and down arrow to search history based on what's already typed. rvm only shows history entries starting with rvm.

irbrc

• Add wirble, some printing functionality, and some other coloring support to irb

Credits

This is a copy of dimroc's 'resources' repository.