ursweiss / dotfiles-server

Lightweight ZSH and Vim configuration for servers

Introduction

Relatively lightweight Zsh and Vim configuration i use on servers, without any dependencies.

• Uses some files of oh-my-zsh
• Custom prompt inspired by Pure Zsh prompt
• Solarized theme for Vim

Features:

• Username and host only displayed if connected to a server by SSH
• Username shown in red if it's root (UID 0)
• Prompt "❱" turns red if last command exited with an error
• Git status on the right side if current directory is within a git repository
• Staged changes in repository shown in green, unstaged in red

Screenshot

Install the dotfiles on a server

Without git installed (Recommended)

This is the quick and easy way to install the current dotfiles on the machine. I do recommend this option as long you don't want to change the files and push them back to the repository.

Copy & paste these lines to you terminal:

### Warning: This overwrites all the files within the home directory with the ones in the repository without any further warning!
cd ~
curl -L https://api.github.com/repos/ursweiss/dotfiles-server/tarball/master | tar xz --strip=1
rm README.md

With git installed

If you want to use git to install/update the dotfiles.

If not done already, you should set the name and eMail address git uses first:

git config --global user.name "your name"
git config --global user.email "[e-mail]"

It's very likely that some of the files in the repository already exist on the local machine. These will cause conflicts when a normal git clone command is used.

To prevent this, we initialize a new git repository, fetch all the content from the repository and then reset to the most recent commit.

cd ~
git init
git remote add origin https://github.com/ursweiss/dotfiles-mac
git fetch --all
git reset --hard origin/master

Optional: Set an git config option to not show any version control state for the dotfile repository. This will speed up the prompt within the home directory significantly.

git config --add zsh-git.hide-status 1