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Dotfiles are all those files beginning with a "." in your user directory and make your system (particularly anything to do with the command line) work and look the way you want it.

Installation

Using Git and the bootstrap script

You can clone the repository wherever you want. (I like to keep it in ~/.dotfiles).

The installation step requires the XCode Command Line Tools, although you should be prompted to install these if you don't have them installed already.

Backups

Fair warning: The bootstrap script attempts to backup existing dotfiles in your HOME directory, but to be safe you should probably make your own copy...

git clone https://github.com/jppferguson/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles
cd ~/.dotfiles
script/bootstrap

This will symlink the appropriate files in .dotfiles to your home directory. Everything is configured and tweaked within ~/.dotfiles.

The main file you'll want to change right off the bat is zsh/zshrc.symlink, which sets up a few paths that'll be different on your particular machine.

dot installs some dependencies, sets sane OS X defaults, and so on. Tweak this script, and occasionally run dot from time to time to keep your environment fresh and up-to-date. You can find this script in bin/.

Git-free install

To install these dotfiles without Git:

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

Topical

Everything's built around topic areas. If you're adding a new area to your forked dotfiles — say, "Java" — you can simply add a java directory and put files in there. Anything with an extension of .zsh will get automatically included into your shell. Anything with an extension of .symlink will get symlinked without extension into $HOME when you run script/bootstrap.

Components

There's a few special files in the hierarchy.

• bin/: Anything in bin/ will get added to your $PATH and be made available everywhere.
• topic/*.zsh: Any files ending in .zsh get loaded into your environment.
• topic/path.zsh: Any file named path.zsh is loaded first and is expected to setup $PATH or similar.
• topic/completion.zsh: Any file named completion.zsh is loaded last and is expected to setup autocomplete.
• topic/*.symlink: Any files ending in *.symlink get symlinked into your $HOME. This is so you can keep all of those versioned in your dotfiles but still keep those autoloaded files in your home directory. These get symlinked in when you run script/bootstrap.

Thanks

Largely based off @holman's awesome repo, but also with some help/ideas/blatent pilfering from these fantastic people:

• @holman
• @mathiasbyens
• @paulirish