bauerei's .dotfiles

This repository contains my .dotfiles.

Installation

Clone the repository to your home directory.
Execute the included script to create symlinks from your home directory to the respective files located in this repository.

git clone git@github.com:bauerei/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles
cd ~/.dotfiles
./makesymlinks.sh

Script

The contained setup script performs the following steps:

1. Back up any existing dotfiles in your home directory to ~/.dotfiles_old/
2. Create symlinks to the dotfiles in ~/.dotfiles/ in your home directory

Customize

Include in script

Change the files variable in the setup script to define for which dotfiles/folders containing dotfiles symlinks are created.

########## Variables

# dotfiles directory
dir=~/.dotfiles
# old dotfiles backup directory
olddir=~/.dotfiles_old
# list of files/folders to symlink in homedir
files="bashrc vimrc vim zshrc oh-my-zsh"

Include in .gitignore

If a new dotfile stored in config/ should be included, .gitignore must be updated respectively.

Since ~/.config will link to config/ after executing the setup script, any app will store its config within config/. To prevent the repository from beeing flooded with configs, only those configs of relevance must be explicitly added to the repository.

Credits

The repository is forked from https://github.com/michaeljsmalley/dotfiles. Michael also wrote a great blog post about his dotfiles repository.