Shell Conf

Source ~/.dotfiles/bash/functions and ~/.dotfiles/bash/aliases in one of these: .bash_profile, .bashrc, or .zshrc.

Zsh Conf

Symlink ~/.dotfiles/zsh/.zshrc to $HOME:

ln -s ~/.dotfiles/zsh/.zshrc ~/.zshrc

launchd

Launchd is OS X's replacement for cron.

• Symlink each .plist file in ~/.dotfiles/launch-scripts/ into ~/Library/LaunchAgents

  ln -s ~/.dotfiles/launch-scripts/com.some-file.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.some-file.plist

• Load each daemon by running launchctl load for each one:

  launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.some-name.plist

Emacs Conf

• Symlink all files in ~/.dotfiles/emacs to ~/.emacs.d/

  ln -s ~/.dotfiles/emacs/.emacs ~/.emacs.d/

Git Conf

• Symlink both gitmessage.txt and master_git_ignore to $HOME

  ln -s ~/.dotfiles/git/gitmessage.txt ~/.gitmessage.txt

  ln -s ~/.dotfiles/git/master_git_ignore ~/.master_git_ignore

• Add these files to ~/.gitconfig:

[core]
    excludesfile = /Users/asimpson/.master_git_ignore
[commit]
    template = /Users/asimpson/.gitmessage.txt

• Also add any local modifications to .gitconfig like so:

[include]
    path = path/to/local/config/gitconfig.local

• Optionally add a SSH key as a signing key:

[user]
    signingkey = ssh-rsa SOMEKEY