Installation: Clone the repository in your home directory
cd ~ && git clone git://github.com/tispratik/dotfiles.git
Backup your existing bashrc and symlink to the one in the repository
mv ~/.bashrc ~/.bashrc_bak && ln -s ~/dotfiles/bashrc ~/.bashrc
Where possible, Vim plugins are installed as git submodules. Check these out by running the commands:
cd dotfiles
git submodule init
git submodule update
ln -s ~/dotfiles/vim ~/.vim
Plugins that are published on github can be installed as submodules. For example, to install the [JavaScript bundle][jsbun], follow these steps:
cd ~/dotfiles
git submodule add http://github.com/pangloss/vim-javascript.git vim/bundle/vim-javascript
This will update the .gitmodules file by appending something like:
[submodule "vim/bundle/vim-javascript"]
path = vim/bundle/vim-javascript
url = http://github.com/pangloss/vim-javascript.git
As well as checkout out the git repo into the
vim/bundle/vim-javascript directory. You can then commit these changes as follows:
git add .
git ci -m "Added the javascript bundle"
If you are using a git 1.8+ you can simply run the following command to remove a vim plugin (ex: vim-railscasts-theme) and then remove the directory.
git submodule deinit vim/bundle/vim-railscasts-theme
rm -rf vim/bundle/vim-railscasts-theme/
Updates all submodules and also recursively updates submodules of submodules
git submodule update --init --remote --merge --recursive
git add vim/bundle && git commit -m