TheMatjaz / dotfiles

Highly customized dotfiles with installers and updaters for OS X and Debian/Ubuntu

Matjaž's dotfiles

Highly customized dotfiles with one operative system per branch and powerful installer and updater scripts.

What are dotfiles anyway?

Dotfiles are user's configuration files on Unix/Linux/BSD/OS X operative systems. Their filename begins with a dot . (thus the name dotfiles), making them hidden files; they are usually places in the user's home directory ~.

Having a published repository of your whole system configuration (with some installers), allows fast and no-pain set-up of any newly installed machine anywhere, especially some servers that are controlled only by command line by ssh.

Installation of Matjaž's dotfiles

This repository has no installers and other scripts on the common branch but there is one Git branch for each operative system. This helps using the OS-specific packager managers (apt-get, brew, ...) and make OS-specific changes (for instance htop has different configurations on Linux and OS X).

To install Matjaž's dotfiles, run one of the following commands. It downloads and runs the installer for your specific OS found in that OS's branch.

The installer should handle all the rest with an interactive command line interface. It installs the dotfiles repository (by default in ~/Development/Dotfiles, but you can change that), all the required packages, HomeBrew (OS X only) and Oh My ZSH!.

Git is required by the installer to clone the branch of your OS.

Debian/Ubuntu

Basically Linuxes with apt-get.

# Using wget
bash -c "$(wget https://raw.github.com/TheMatjaz/dotfiles/debian-ubuntu/matjaz_dotfiles_installer.sh -O -)"

# Using curl
bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/TheMatjaz/dotfiles/debian-ubuntu/matjaz_dotfiles_installer.sh)"

Apple OS X (Mac)

CAUTION!
This installer has NEVER BEEN TESTED because I have not yet installed another OS X system. Use it at your own risk.

# Using curl
bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/TheMatjaz/dotfiles/mac-osx/matjaz_dotfiles_installer.sh)"

Other OSs

No other OSs yet, but any contribution is welcome!

What is each dotfile for?

Configuration files

• zshrc: general Oh My ZSH! settings
• zsh_path: $PATH variable setting and export settings, like default text editors and so on
• zsh_aliases: custom aliases and functions for the zsh
• zsh_fino_custom.zsh-theme: a customized fino theme for Oh My ZSH!
• gitignore_global: a list of files Git should ignore in any repository. Those are used also by Mercurial
• emacs_init.el: Emacs configuration that also installs some ELPA packages, if not already installed, to completely clone an existing configuration

The others are pretty obvious from the filenames alone.

Installers/automation scripts

• matjaz_dotfiles_installer.sh does all the work for you (see Installation section above). It's an interactive installer which allows:
  • downloading this repository
  • downloading all the required packages for the dotfiles, like Emacs or Oh My ZSH!
  • placing the proper symlinks to activate the dotfiles
  • performing system updates
  • and a few more small things such as locale setting, hostname, swapfile
• new_system_packages_installer.sh installs some packages which the Matjaž's dotfiles are for. It calls the system's package manager. Can be run stand-alone. The matjaz_dotfiles_installer.sh calls it for you as well.
• full_system_updater.sh just like new_system_packages_installs.sh detects the operative system and updates all the packages of its package managers. Can be run stand-alone. The matjaz_dotfiles_installer.sh calls it optionally during the install.
• useful_packages.md is a simple list containing packages generally worth installing on any system (it's not an executable, just a memo). It is not available on the common branch.

License

This dotfiles repository and all its files are released under the BSD 3-clause license.

Thanks to

Those repositories were used as a huge inspiration, some functions and aliases were also taken from them. All of those repositories are subject to the MIT license, released by their respective owners.

• Mathias Bynens's dotfiles
• Holman's dotfiles
• Joined's dotfiles
• A huge list of other dotfiles repositories
• Oh My ZSH installation scripts

Some really useful documentation about the dotfiles repositories may be found here:

• Getting started with dotfiles, great for beginners
• Dotfiles are meant to be forked by Holman
• Using Git and GitHub to manage your dotfiles