Alexis’ dotfiles

Installation

Using Git and the bootstrap script

You can clone the repository wherever you want (I like to keep it in ~/.dotfiles). The bootstrapper script will pull in the latest version and copy the files to your home folder.

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/alexisvincent/dotfiles.git .dotfiles
cd .dotfiles
source bootstrap.sh

To update, cd into your local dotfiles repository and then:

source bootstrap.sh

Install Dependencies

# Download oh-my-zsh (It will update itself)
git clone git://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh.git ~/.oh-my-zsh

# Download Dein Plugin Manager (It will manage itself)
git clone https://github.com/Shougo/dein.vim ~/.vim/bundle/repos/github.com/Shougo/dein.vim

Install Font

Find your font at https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts and download

Add custom commands without creating a new fork

If ~/.extra exists, it will be sourced along with the other files. You can use this to add a few custom commands without the need to fork this entire repository, or to add commands you don’t want to commit to a public repository.

My ~/.extra looks something like this:

# Git credentials
# Not in the repository, to prevent people from accidentally committing under my name
GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="Alexis Vincent"
GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
git config --global user.name "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="alexis@alexisvincent.io"
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"
git config --global user.email "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"

You could also use ~/.extra to override settings, functions and aliases from my dotfiles repository. It’s probably better to fork this repository instead, though.