potzenheimer/dotfiles

Sensible system setup defaults

cb's dotfiles

Installation and setup

In order to use this dotfiles no special steps are needed. Just copy&paste all data, configuration or files to the corresponding places on your machine.

In order to make the most out of a general dotfile repository it is recommended to actually use the provided files by either setting up the whole dotfile dir or by symlinking or copying the desired parts.

cd ~/path/to/safe/checkout/location
git clone [email protected]:potzenheimer/dotfiles.git
ln -s ~//path/to/safe/checkout/location ~/dotfiles

You can clone the repository wherever you want (e.g. ~/dev/dotfiles, with ~/dotfiles as a symlink).

Then copy the config files to your home directory, e.g.

scp ~/dotfiles/.bash_profile ~/.bash_profile
scp ~/dotfiles/.bash_prompt ~/.bash_prompt

Setup

The .bash_prompt file automatically loads the following config files, so make sure you have at least empty versions in your home directory:

• bash_prompt (color console prompt)
• exports (set environment defaults like e.g. default editor)
• aliases (handy shortcuts like e.g flush to purge local DNS Cache)
• functions (tools for easier development like e.g. server opens a Python Server with the current directory as root for testing static sites)

Git command promt enhancements

We provide an installation file for git completion setup (not installed by default when using brew git installations). In order to enable it, you must run

(sudo) ~/install-git-completion.sh

Extra paths and user specific information

You can add extra paths by editing the .path file.

Note: you must edit .extra to configure your user specific information ( like e.g. github user). Otherwise several services might not work as expected.

Using Git and the bootstrap script (experimantal)

The bootstrapper script will pull in the latest version and copy the files to your home folder.

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

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

source bootstrap.sh

Alternatively, to update while avoiding the confirmation prompt:

set -- -f; source bootstrap.sh