Inspired by Mathias Bynens
git clone https://github.com/francisbesset/dotfiles.git && cd dotfiles && source bootstrap.sh
source bootstrap.sh
Avoiding the confirmation
set -- -f; source bootstrap.sh
To install these dotfiles without Git:
cd; curl -#L https://github.com/francisbesset/dotfiles/tarball/master | tar -xzv --strip-components 1 --exclude={README.md,bootstrap.sh}
To update later on, just run that command again.
If ~/.path
exists, it will be sourced along with the other files, before any feature testing (such as detecting which version of ls
is being used) takes place.
Here’s an example ~/.path
file that adds /usr/local/bin
to the $PATH
:
export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"
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="Francis Besset"
GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
git config --global user.name "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="francis.besset@gmail.com"
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.