This personal home directory configuration system is based off holman's dotfiles. It has been slimmed down to suit my own needs, tweaked, and "ported" to bash, because I couldn't be bothered with zsh. It has subsequently been "ported" back to zsh because I was bored with bash.
git clone git://github.com/mauricerkelly/dotfiles ~/.dotfilescd ~/.dotfilesvi bash/bashrc.symlink(tweak this up if necessary)rake install(you'll need the Ruby toolrakefor this)git submodule update --init --recursive(pulls in some submodules)
The install rake task will symlink the appropriate files in .dotfiles to your
home directory. Everything is configured and tweaked within ~/.dotfiles,
though.
The main file you'll want to change right off the bat is bash/bashrc.symlink,
which sets up a few paths that'll be different on your particular machine.
Everything's built around topic areas. If you're adding a new area to your
forked dotfiles — say, "Java" — you can simply add a java directory and put
files in there. Anything with an extension of .sh will get automatically
included into your shell. Anything with an extension of .symlink will get
symlinked without extension into $HOME when you run rake install.
There's a few special files in the hierarchy.
- bin/: Anything in
bin/will get added to your$PATHand be made available everywhere. - topic/*.sh: Any files ending in
.shget loaded into your environment. - topic/*.symlink: Any files or directories ending in
*.symlinkget symlinked into your$HOME. This is so you can keep all of those versioned in your dotfiles but still keep those autoloaded files in your home directory. These get symlinked in when you runrake install. - topic/\completions: Any files called in
completionsget loaded last so that they get loaded after we set up zsh autocomplete functions.
Like Zach Holman before me, I forked this dotfiles from his and have since made it my own. It was very useful as a starting point, and as an inspiration to start syncing my dotfiles from Linux to OS X.