my dotfiles

Your dotfiles are how you personalize your system. As a developer or hacker with the usual set of obsessive-compulsive quirks, they're super duper important. These are mine.

topical

Everything's built around topic areas. If you're adding a new area to your forked dotfiles — say, "Java" — you can simply add a java directory and put files in there. Anything with an extension of .symlink will get symlinked without extension into $HOME when you run script/bootstrap. Any install.sh file will automatically get run when bootstrapping.

what's inside

A lot of stuff. Check them out in the file browser above and see what components may mesh up with you. Fork it, remove what you don't use, and build on what you do use.

components

There's a few special files in the hierarchy.

• bin/: Anything in bin/ will get added to your $PATH and be made available everywhere.
• Brewfile: This is a list of applications for Homebrew Cask to install: things like Chrome and 1Password and Adium and stuff. Might want to edit this file before running any initial setup.
• topic/install.sh: Any file named install.sh is executed when you run script/install.
• topic/*.symlink: Any file ending in *.symlink gets symlinked into your $HOME. This is so you can keep all of those versioned in your dotfiles but still keep those autoloaded files in your home directory. These get symlinked in when you run script/bootstrap.

install

Run this:

git clone git@github.com:melhawnuhra/dotfiles.git ~/dotfiles
cd ~/dotfiles
script/bootstrap

This will symlink the appropriate files in dotfiles to your home directory. Everything is configured and tweaked within ~/dotfiles.

dot is a simple script that installs some dependencies, sets sane macOS defaults, and so on. Tweak this script, and occasionally run dot from time to time to keep your environment fresh and up-to-date. You can find this script in bin/.

If you'd like to pull in the Vim plugins, run $ git submodule update --init --recursive

bugs

I want this to work for everyone; that means when you clone it down it should work for you even though you may not have rbenv installed, for example. That said, I do use this as my dotfiles, so there's a good chance I may break something if I forget to make a check for a dependency.

If you're brand-new to the project and run into any blockers, please open an issue on this repository and I'd love to get it fixed for you!

thanks

Most of what you see here is adapted (or outright stolen) from other developers, who have been kind enough to share chunks of their personal configuration. Zach Holman forked Ryan Bates' dotfiles for a couple years before finally rolling his own after the weight of his changes warranted it. Similarly, I found it most helpful to build onto Holman's structure. I'm sure this will change extensively in the future, but it compartmentalizes everything the way I like it for now.