mathias's readme is awesome. go read it.

This repo is mostly for me but you're welcome to make suggestions. Mathias's is the project to fork. I'm mostly catching up to him, @cowboy, and @gf3.

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/mathiasbynens/dotfiles.git && cd dotfiles && source bootstrap.sh

My basic setup is captured in install-deps.sh which adds homebrew, z, nave, etc.

source bootstrap.sh

Toss it into a file called .extra which you do not commit to this repo and just keep in your ~/

set -- -f; source bootstrap.sh

I do something nice with my `PATH` there:

```shell
# PATH like a bawss
      PATH=/opt/local/bin
PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/sbin
PATH=$PATH:/bin
PATH=$PATH:~/.rvm/bin
PATH=$PATH:~/code/git-friendly
# ...

export PATH

…is really important. even for these files.

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

Install Dotfiles Syntax Highlighting via Sublime Text 2 Package Control

If ~/.path exists, it will be sourced along with the other files, before any feature testing (such as detecting which version of ls is being used) takes place.

Here’s an example ~/.path file that adds ~/utils to the $PATH:

export PATH="$HOME/utils:$PATH"

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:

# Git credentials
# Not in the repository, to prevent people from accidentally committing under my name
GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="Mathias Bynens"
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"

You could also use ~/.extra to override settings, functions and aliases from my dotfiles repository. It’s probably better to fork this repository instead, though.

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

./.osx

When setting up a new Mac, you may want to install some common Homebrew formulae (after installing Homebrew, of course):

./.brew

• .ackrc - for ack (better than grep)
• .vimrc, .vim - vim config, obv.

• .aliases
• .bash_profile
• .bash_prompt
• .bashrc
• .exports
• .functions
• .extra - not included, explained above

• install-deps.sh - random apps i need installed
• .osx - run on a fresh osx machine
• .brew - homebrew initialization

• .git

• .gitattributes

• .gitconfig

• .gitignore

• .inputrc - config for bash readline

git clone https://github.com/paulirish/dotfiles.git && cd dotfiles && ./sync.sh

To update later on, just run the sync again.