Dotfiles

Setup and list of software for a development machine. Based on Aidan Feldman dotfiles

Software

Development machine uses the following software:

• Atom -- A hackable text editor for the 21st Century
• iTerm 2 -- Mac OS Terminal replacement that does amazing things
• Homebrew -- The missing package manager for OS X
• Fish shell -- A command line shell for the 90s
• Bash Git Prompt -- An informative git prompt for bash and fish
• Git -- A free and open source distributed version control system
• git + hub gem -- A command line tool that wraps git in order to extend it with extra features and commands that make working with GitHub easier.
• Git Flow -- A set of git extensions to provide high-level repository operations for Vincent Driessen's branching model

Manual installation

Download and manually install software.

• Install Homebrew: ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
• Install Fish shell: brew install fish
• Install Git: brew install git
• Install Hub: brew install hub
• Install git-flow: brew install git-flow

Symlink dotfiles

Create symlinks from the home directory to any desired dotfiles and backup dotfiles.

• Clone this repository git clone git@github.com:rslnk/dotfiles.git
• cd ~/dotfiles
• Run ./makesymlinks.sh

Settings

Individual software setup.

Fish

After brew install fish add Fish to the default shells list and set it to be default shell:

• echo "/usr/local/bin/fish" | sudo tee -a /etc/shells
• chsh -s /usr/local/bin/fish

Atom

Install Atom packages from the list: apm install --packages-file atom/my-packages.txt. To update packages list: apm list --installed --bare > atom/my-packages.txt.

Iterm2

Set "Load preferences from a custom folder or URL" to /Users/username/dotfiles/iterm2 in Preferences > General.

Git Flow

Set up git flow for the new repository with a single command line git flow-setup.

1. git clone https://github.com/user:example.git
2. cd example
3. git flow-setup

OSX

To setup new OSX run ./osx/setup.sh.

To-do

• Automate software installation
• Add Capistrano install
• Add Composer install
• Add Vagrant install
• Add Ansible install
• Add npm install
• Add Bower install
• Add Gems install