Matt’s dotfiles

Installation

Using Git and the bootstrap script

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

cd && mkdir -pv Workspace && cd Workspace && git clone git://github.com/mchesler/dotfiles.git && cd dotfiles && ./bootstrap.sh

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

./bootstrap.sh

Alternatively, to update while avoiding the confirmation prompt:

./bootstrap.sh -f

Git-free install

To install these dotfiles without Git:

cd; curl -#L https://github.com/mchesler/dotfiles/tarball/master | tar -xzv --strip-components 1 --exclude={README.md,bootstrap.sh}

To update later on, just run that command again.

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:

# PATH additions
export PATH="~/bin:$PATH"

# Git credentials
# Not in the repository, to prevent people from accidentally committing under my name
GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="Matt Chesler"
GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
git config --global user.name "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="matt@chesler.nyc"
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"
git config --global user.email "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"
GITHUB_USER="mchesler"
git config --global github.user "$GITHUB_USER"
GITHUB_TOKEN="REDACTED"
git config --global github.token "$GITHUB_TOKEN"

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY="REDACTED"
export AWS_SECRET_KEY="REDACTED"

Feedback

Suggestions/improvements welcome!

Inspiration

Drawn from Mathias's dotfiles

https://github.com/mchesler/dotfiles