I wanted to write my own dotfiles to allow myself some freedom of implementation I like a lot of what I've seen out there, but none of them are quite the way I'd do it. Due to the nature of dotfiles, these are a compilation of a lot of other peoples work, with some of my own work as well. I'll do my best to source the original authors as best as possible.
I was using Mathias's dotfiles for a while, and his .osx file is perfection.
The structure of my dotfiles is what I feel distinguishes it from the rest. It's simple and easy to follow.
.
|- bin
|- symlinks
|- brews
|- gems
|- zsh
|- lib
This directory will be added to PATH so all programs inside are available.
Simple and awesome.
Every one of these files will be linked to ~/. For example:
~/.gitconfig -> symlinks/gitconfig
~/.hushlogin -> symlinks/.hushlogin
Notice it doesn't matter if you put the dot in front of the filename.
These files should be plain text files.
ack
libyaml
zsh
All files in brews get concatenated and then brew install #{line}
Already installed errors are suppressed.
Just like brews. Runs gem install #{line}
All files in this directory get sourced in every shell.
These dotfiles currently work well on my mac, and work (not as well) on a fedora box I use at school.
I'd like to make them more portable, so on as many systems as possable I can install git,
git clone https://github.com/nathan/dotfiles.git, run the bootstrap and be off and running.
Currently I'm working on making this work with a raw debian (wheezy) install, with squeeze comming next.