Warning: These are my preferred settings. Use at your own risk!

You can clone the repository; the bootstrapper script will pull in the latest version and copy the files to your home folder.

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

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

source bootstrap.sh [--force]

To install these dotfiles without git:

cd; curl -#L https://github.com/jstrauss/dotfiles/tarball/master | tar -xzv --strip-components 1 --exclude={README.md,bootstrap.sh,.osx,LICENSE-MIT.txt}

To update later on, just run that command again.

If you create a file ~/.extra, it will be sourced along with the other dotfiles when bash loads up. You can use this to add custom commands without forking this repository and without the need to worry about committing any private commands to a public repository.

My ~/.extra file looks something like this:

# Git credentials
# Not in repo to avoid others from accidentally committing under my name
GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="Jeff Strauss"
GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
git config --global user.name "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="[email protected]"
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"
git config --global user.email "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"

When setting up a new Mac, you may want to use a script to set a variety of sensible macOS default functionality. This repo contains a .macos, which may be sourced:

source ~/.macos

If you choose to use this file, make sure that you locate the the General UI/UX section and update the four commented lines that set the ComputerName, HostName, LocalHostName, and NetBIOSName to provide your own desired system name:

# Set computer name (as done via System Preferences → Sharing)
# sudo scutil --set ComputerName "<preferred_name>"
# sudo scutil --set HostName "<preferred_name>"
# sudo scutil --set LocalHostName "<preferred_name>"
# sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.smb.server NetBIOSName -string "<preferred_name>"

Suggestions/improvements are welcome and encouraged!

Jeff Strauss	Jay Harris

• dotfiles repository by Mathias Bynens