Mathias’s dotfiles
Installation
Using Git and the bootstrap script
You can clone the repository wherever you want. The bootstrapper script will pull in the latest version and copy the files to your home folder.
git clone https://github.com/SiggyF/dotfiles.git && cd dotfiles && source bootstrap.sh
To update, cd
into your local dotfiles
repository and then:
./bootstrap.sh
Git-free install
To install these dotfiles without Git:
cd; curl -#L https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/tarball/master | tar -xzv --strip-components 1 --exclude={README.md,bootstrap.sh,LICENSE-MIT.txt}
To update later on, just run that command again.
$PATH
Specify the If ~/.path
exists, it will be sourced along with the other files, before any feature testing (such as detecting which version of ls
is being used) takes place.
Here’s an example ~/.path
file that adds ~/utils
to the $PATH
:
export PATH="$HOME/utils:$PATH"
Add custom commands without creating a new fork
If ~/.extra
exists, it will be sourced along with the other files. You can use this to add a few custom commands without the need to fork this entire repository, or to add commands you don’t want to commit to a public repository.
My ~/.extra
looks something like this:
# Git credentials
# Not in the repository, to prevent people from accidentally committing under my name
GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="Mathias Bynens"
GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
git config --global user.name "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="mathias@mailinator.com"
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"
git config --global user.email "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"
You could also use ~/.extra
to override settings, functions and aliases from my dotfiles repository. It’s probably better to fork this repository instead, though.
Thanks to…
Mathias Bynens |
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@ptb and his OS X Lion Setup repository
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Ben Alman and his dotfiles repository
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Chris Gerke and his tutorial on creating an OS X SOE master image + Insta repository
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Cãtãlin Mariş and his dotfiles repository
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Gianni Chiappetta for sharing his amazing collection of dotfiles
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Jan Moesen and his ancient
.bash_profile
+ shiny tilde repository -
Lauri ‘Lri’ Ranta for sharing loads of hidden preferences
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Matijs Brinkhuis and his dotfiles repository
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Nicolas Gallagher and his dotfiles repository
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Tom Ryder and his dotfiles repository
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anyone who contributed a patch or made a helpful suggestion