dotfiles Seed/Starter
Automatically symlink (and backup!) configuration files. Non-destructive bootstrap script backs up existing files and symlinks to ~/.dotfiles.backups, every time it runs. (Done 1,000s of times by 1,000s of others but, damn it, I haven't done it yet.)
Would suggest submodules versus clones for things like Pathogen bundles or other git-in-git stuff.
Folders
dotfiles: your dotfiles! Put files here exactly as you'd like them to appear in your home directory.
dotfiles-manual: files you need, that don't necessarily belong in your home directory and should be manually moved/linked.
Personalizing
Clone/fork this repo and make it your own! Since these are your personal files, you may want to move things into a private repo and if you need more than GitHub offers BitBucket has unlimited private repos.
Quickstart
You can put the dotfiles folder anywhere, but it's important to run the bootstrap script from within the desired dotfiles folder. Here we're going to put the dotfiles folder at ~/.dotfiles:
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Clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/ActionScripted/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles -
Change into the dotfiles folder:
cd ~/.dotfiles -
Run the boostrap script:
./boostrap.sh
Uninstalling / Reverting
First, breathe. Everything is backed up to ~/.dotfiles.backup
- Move anything you want to keep out of your dotfiles directory
- Delete your dotfiles directory
- Move things out of ~/.dotfiles.backup
- If you encoutered an error/problem, submit an issue at https://github.com/ActionScripted/dotfiles
Changelog
- [[2013/11/26]] -- copying a stripped-down seed version back to GitHub (public)
- [[2013/09/09]] -- moved to BitBucket from GitHub
License
Released under the WTFPL:
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, December 2004
Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar <sam@hocevar.net>
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
as the name is changed.
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.
