Anthias' dotfiles

Forked from https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles

Installation

Using Git and the bootstrap script

You can clone the repository wherever you want. (I like to keep it in ~/Projects/dotfiles, with ~/dotfiles as a symlink.) The bootstrapper script will pull in the latest version and copy the files to your home folder.

git clone https://github.com/anthias/dotfiles.git && cd dotfiles && ./bootstrap.sh

To update, cd into your local dotfiles repository and then:

./bootstrap.sh

Alternatively, to update while avoiding the confirmation prompt:

./bootstrap.sh -f

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:

# PATH additions
export PATH="~/bin:$PATH"

# Git credentials
# Not in the repository, to prevent people from accidentally committing under my name
GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="NAME"
GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
git config --global user.name "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="EMAIL"
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"
git config --global user.email "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"

Sensible OS X defaults

When setting up a new Mac, you may want to set some sensible OS X defaults:

./osx_settings.sh

Thanks to…

• Gianni Chiappetta for sharing his amazing collection of dotfiles
• Matijs Brinkhuis and his homedir repository
• Jan Moesen and his ancient .bash_profile + shiny tilde repository
• Ben Alman and his dotfiles repository
• Nicolas Gallagher and his dotfiles repository
• Tom Ryder and his dotfiles repository
• Tim Esselens
• anyone who contributed a patch or made a helpful suggestion