Ian's dotfiles (forked from Mathias’s dotfiles)
Installation
Using Git and the bootstrap script
You can clone the repository wherever you want. (I like to keep it in ~/Projects/dotfiles
, with ~/dotfiles
as a symlink.) The bootstrapper script will pull in the latest version and copy the files to your home folder.
git clone https://github.com/impressiver/dotfiles.git && cd dotfiles && source bootstrap.sh
To update, cd
into your local dotfiles
repository and then:
source bootstrap.sh
Alternatively, to update while avoiding the confirmation prompt:
set -- -f; source bootstrap.sh
Git-free install
To install these dotfiles without Git:
cd; curl -#L https://github.com/impressiver/dotfiles/tarball/master | tar -xzv --strip-components 1 --exclude={README.md,bootstrap.sh,LICENSE-MIT.txt}
To update later on, just run that command again.
$PATH
Specify the 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 ~/bin
to the $PATH
:
export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
Add custom commands without creating a new fork
If ~/.extra
exists, it will be sourced along with the other files. You can use this to add a few custom commands without the need to fork this entire repository, or to add commands you don’t want to commit to a public repository.
My ~/.extra
looks something like this:
# Git credentials
# Not in the repository, to prevent people from accidentally committing under my name
GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="<Your Name>"
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="<Your Email Address>"
GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
GIT_COMMITTER_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.
Get comfortable in a hurry
Run this script on a shiny new Mac (new machine, or a clean install of OS X) to get your environment set up the way you like it. This is the kitchen-sink script, it runs all the other scripts after updating your dotfiles:
./recipes/makeitmine.sh
Install Development Apps
Run this to install a bunch of common apps (both CLI and Desktop), tailored toward web development:
./recipes/dev.sh
Install Homebrew formulae
<<<<<<< HEAD You may also want to install some common Homebrew formulae (after installing Homebrew, of course):
./recipes/brew.sh
Sensible OS X defaults
You might want to tweak the default settings from time to time, it's OK to run this more than once:
./recipes/osx.sh
Shared Preferences
If you use Dropbox, or any other cloud sync service, you can share preferences across machines using this recipe. It will individually copy app prefs in $HOME/Dropbox/.dotfiles/Library/Application Support
to $HOME/Library/Application Support
(after making a backup, just in case):
./recipes/prefs.sh
Feedback
Suggestions/improvements welcome!
Thanks to…
- Mathias Bynens for building an awesome dotfiles project.