Forked from Mathias's dotfiles.

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

git clone https://github.com/tomharrison/dotfiles.git && cd dotfiles && source bootstrap.sh

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

source bootstrap.sh

Alternatively, to update while avoiding the confirmation prompt:

set -- -f; source bootstrap.sh

To install these dotfiles without Git:

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

To update later on, just run that command again.

If ~/.path exists, it will be sourced along with the other files, before any feature testing (such as detecting which version of ls is being used) takes place.

Here’s an example ~/.path file that adds ~/utils to the $PATH:

export PATH="$HOME/utils:$PATH"

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="~/bin:$PATH"

# Git credentials
# Not in the repository, to prevent people from accidentally committing under my name
GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="Mathias Bynens"
GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
git config --global user.name "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="mathias@mailinator.com"
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"
git config --global user.email "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"

You could also use ~/.extra to override settings, functions and aliases from my dotfiles repository. It’s probably better to fork this repository instead, though.

When setting up a new Mac, you may want to set some sensible OS X defaults:

./.osx

Install italics support:

./scripts/term_setup.sh

Navigate to iTerm 2 > Preferences > Default Profile > Terminal. Set "Report Terminal Type" to xterm-256color-italic. Reload all configurations and make sure $TERM is xterm-256color-italic:

source ~/.bash_profile
killall tmux
echo $TERM