jrhdoty / dotfiles

Dotfiles

This repository includes all of my custom dotfiles. The content of the dotfiles is my own but the installation setup I took from michaeljsmalley and his blogpost.

They should be cloned to your home directory so that the path is ~/dotfiles/. The included setup script creates symlinks from your home directory to the files which are located in ~/dotfiles/.

The setup script is smart enough to back up your existing dotfiles into a ~/dotfiles_old/ directory if you already have any dotfiles of the same name as the dotfile symlinks being created in your home directory.

So, to recap, the install script will:

1. Back up any existing dotfiles in your home directory to ~/dotfiles_old/
2. Create symlinks to the dotfiles in ~/dotfiles/ in your home directory
3. Clone the oh-my-zsh repository from my GitHub (for use with zsh)
4. Check to see if zsh is installed, if it isn't, try to install it.
5. If zsh is installed, run a chsh -s to set it as the default shell.

Installation

git clone git://github.com/michaeljsmalley/dotfiles ~/dotfiles
cd ~/dotfiles
./makesymlinks.sh