Neybar's dotfiles

Installation

ZSH

I'm in the middle of a switch to ZSH and oh-my-zsh. The installer isn't updated yet, so run the oh-my-zsh installer by hand for now.

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

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 Makefile will pull in the latest version and copy the files to your home folder.

git clone https://github.com/neybar/dotfiles.git && cd dotfiles && git submodule update --init --recursive && make install

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

make update

if you are making local change and just want to copy files into place then:

make install # will copy files and run vim
make copy    # will only copy

Git-free install

To install these dotfiles without Git:

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

To update later on, just run that command again. (make won't work for the git-free install very well)

Specify the $PATH

TODO update for zsh. Short version is ignore the below, and drop path.zsh in

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"

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:

# Git credentials
# Not in the repository, to prevent people from accidentally committing under my name
GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="Your Name"
GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
git config --global user.name "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="your@email.com"
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.

Sensible OS X defaults

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

./.osx

Note: I haven't run the .osx script for a while. I mostly keep it for reference so I can apply settings when needed. Not all of the settings in this file are needed.

Install Homebrew formulae

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

brew update
brew upgrade
brew bundle ~/Brewfile

After getting homebrew setup, you can maintain your brews with

brewski

This will run homebrews' update, upgrade, cu, and then cleanup commands

Feedback

Suggestions/improvements welcome!

Thanks to…

• Forked from (https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles)

• @ptb and his OS X Lion Setup repository

• Ben Alman and his dotfiles repository

• Chris Gerke and his tutorial on creating an OS X SOE master image + Insta repository

• Cãtãlin Mariş and his dotfiles repository

• Gianni Chiappetta for sharing his amazing collection of dotfiles

• Jan Moesen and his ancient .bash_profile + shiny tilde repository

• Lauri ‘Lri’ Ranta for sharing loads of hidden preferences

• Matijs Brinkhuis and his dotfiles repository

• Nicolas Gallagher and his dotfiles repository

• Sindre Sorhus

• Tom Ryder and his dotfiles repository

• Kevin Suttle and his dotfiles repository and OSXDefaults project, which aims to provide better documentation for ~/.osx

• Haralan Dobrev

• anyone who contributed a patch or made a helpful suggestion