Thierry Régagnon’s dotfiles

Installation

Prerequisite

• You are on Mac OS X
• You use Homebrew
• You have installed Git with Homebrew

Using Git and the bootstrap script

You can clone the repository wherever you want. (I like to keep it in `~/.dotfiles/) The bootstrapper script will copy the files to your home folder.

git clone http://github.com/tregagnon/dotfiles.git && cd dotfiles && ./bootstrap.sh

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

./bootstrap.sh

Alternatively, to update while avoiding the confirmation prompt:

./bootstrap.sh -f

Git-free install

To install these dotfiles without Git:

cd; curl -#L https://github.com/tregagnon/dotfiles/tarball/master | tar -xzv --strip-components 1 --exclude={README.md,bootstrap.sh}

To update later on, just run that command again.

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:

# PATH additions
export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin"

# Git credentials
# Not in the dotfiles repository, to prevent people from committing under my name
git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
git config --global github.user "yourusername"
git config --global github.token "yourtoken"

Feedback

Suggestions/improvements welcome!

Thanks to…

• Mathias Bynens for sharing his dotfiles and the bootstrap script
• anyone who published their dotfiles on GitHub with comments. I am learning a lot thanks to you!