web-bert/dotfiles

A home for my dotfiles

Setup guides

1. Clone the repo

Clone the repo to a folder of your choice.

We'll assume ~/work/personal/dotfiles for this guide.

2. Link the main directory

ln -s ~/work/personal/dotfiles ~/dotfiles

3. Link the colours

ln -s ~/dotfiles/dircolors ~/.dircolors

4. Link the bash profile for the platform

Important: this step depends on whether you have a bash profile already

4a. If you don't have a bash profile

OSX:

ln -s ~/dotfiles/bash_profile_osx ~/.bash_profile

LINUX:

ln -s ~/dotfiles/bash_profile_linux ~/.bash_profile

4b. If you already have a .bash_profile, then add this line to it:

OSX:

if [ -f ~/dotfiles/bash_profile_osx ]; then source ~/dotfiles/bash_profile_osx ; fi

LINUX:

if [ -f ~/dotfiles/bash_profile_linux ]; then source ~/dotfiles/bash_profile_linux ; fi

5. Setup the global gitignore

git config --global core.excludesfile ~/dotfiles/gitignore_global