bratta / dotfiles

My dotfiles. Work in progress. Use wisely.

Bratta's Dotfiles

This is a reusable repository of Mac OS X-centric dotfiles for ease of setting up a new system. The goal is to make it more or less compatible with Linux distributions as well.

Install

git clone git://github.com/bratta/dotfiles ~/.dotfiles
cd ~/.dotfiles
git submodule init
git submodule update
rake  # or rake "df:install && rake df:install_bin" to skip janus

This produces symlinks for the files in .dotfiles to the appropriate places.

OR

If you're feeling brave, you can try the setup.sh script which will attempt to automatically install the necessary software packages, clone the repo, set up the dotfiles, and install RVM all in one fell swoop.

bash <(curl -s https://github.com/bratta/dotfiles/raw/master/setup.sh)

This is setup to work for OS X using either macports or homebrew, as well as Ubuntu using aptitude.

Organization

Directories are full of tiger's blood.

.
|-- bin
|-- lib
|   `-- tasks
`-- symlinks
    `-- bash

bin

Inside the bin directory, place any files you wish to appear in ~/bin which should ideally be added to your path. Any local cool tools can appear here.

lib/tasks

Inside this directory, place any Rake tasks related to setting up your system inside this directory in a *.rake file.

symlinks

Here is where you put your dotfiles you wish to symlink to the equivalent file in your home directory. Name them by excluding that pesky leading period, So to symlink ~/.vimrc, the file you want is ~/.dotfiles/symlinks/vimrc.

WARNING

The idea behind this repository is to provide an open set of tools for managing dotfiles. DO NOT commit anything sensitive, such as SSH private keys, API secret keys, passwords, etc. Be smart.

Credits

This is based loosely on schisamo's dotfiles repository on Github. Bash profile info refactored after seeing how JEG2 handles his. Thanks to the almighty carlhuda duo for Janus.