My Dotfiles

These are my personal configuration files, and are meant to extend thoughtbot's dotfiles. I keep my personal dotfiles isolated to avoid overwriting them when I update thoughtbot's dotfiles on my machine. My dotfiles include:

• .gitconfig.local
• .laptop.local
• .tmux.conf.local
• .vimrc.bundles.local
• .vimrc.local
• .zshrc.local

Example of how .local dotfiles work

The standard configuration for vim is installed at ~/.vimrc. thoughtbot dotfile's will overwrite this config file. thoughtbot's dotfiles include source ~/.vimrc.local at the end of the config so it sources your local dotfiles.

Installation

Clone the repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/jasonramirez/dotfiles-local.git

Symlink all *.local dotfiles from ~/.*.local to /path/to/dotfiles-local/*.local. From the ditfiles-local directory:

$ ./setup.sh

Manual Symbolic linking

OSX:

$ ln /Users/username/dotfiles-local/.vimrc.local ~/.vimrc.local

Troubleshooting

If certain features aren't seeming to work, try checking to make sure that your root config files are loading the local files. For example:

#.zshrc

source ~/.zsrhc.local