Based on Zach Holman's' excellent dotfiles repo, modified for bash rather than ZSH, simplified, and tailored for me.
Everything's built around topic areas. If you're adding a new area to your
forked dotfiles — say, "Drupal" — you can simply add a drupal directory and put
files in there. Anything with an extension of .sh will get automatically
included into your shell (exceptions below under Components). Anything with an extension of .symlink will get symlinked without extension into $HOME when you run script/bootstrap.
There's a few special files in the hierarchy.
- bin/: Anything in
bin/will get added to your$PATHand 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/*.sh: Any files ending in
.shget loaded into your environment. - topic/path.sh: Any file named
path.shis loaded first and is expected to setup$PATHor similar. - topic/completion.sh: Any file named
completion.shis loaded last and is expected to setup autocomplete. - topic/*.symlink: Any files ending in
*.symlinkget symlinked into your$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 runscript/bootstrap.
Run this:
git clone [email protected]:mariagwyn/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles
cd ~/.dotfiles
script/bootstrapThis will symlink the appropriate files in .dotfiles to your home directory.
Everything is configured and tweaked within ~/.dotfiles.
The main file you'll want to change right off the bat is bash/bash_profile.symlink,
which sets up a few paths that'll be different on your particular machine.
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/.