Yet Another Repository on Github With Dotfiles (yargwid)

Influenced by mathiasbyens/dotfiles.

Origins

My old dotfiles are in old_dotfiles. These were combined with dotfiles from Github user mathiasbyens to result in this repository.

Installation

Using Git and the bootstrap script

Clone the repo to your desired directory:

git clone https://github.com/charlesreid1/yargwid.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:

set -- -f; ./bootstrap.sh

Changing PATH

Modify the ~/.path to use Bash syntax to modify the $PATH variable, e.g.,

export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"

Git Identity and Etc

The ~/.extra file is ignored by git, so you can put personal details there. For example, set your git username/email:

# Git credentials
GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXX"
GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
git config --global user.name "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="xxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.com"
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"
git config --global user.email "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"

Mac OS X

Set some Mac OS X specific settings by executing the contents of .macos:

./.macos

Now install Homebrew and various formulae:

./brew.sh

References/Acknowledgements

Old material in the Yargwid repository charlesreid1/yargwid (old_dotfiles dir), previously released under the GNU Public License v2.0, are being released and archived under the more permissive MIT License.

• mathiasbyens/dotfiles.

Dotfile contents were a 50/50 mix: half dotfile habits accumulated over the decades, half Matthias's. See LICENSE.matthias for license/acknowledgement of Matthias.

Listed by Matthias:

• @ptb and his OS X Lion Setup repository
• Ben Alman and his dotfiles repository
• Chris Gerke and his tutorial on creating an OS X SOE master image + Insta repository
• Cătălin Mariș and his dotfiles repository
• Gianni Chiappetta for sharing his amazing collection of dotfiles
• Jan Moesen and his ancient .bash_profile + shiny tilde repository
• Lauri ‘Lri’ Ranta for sharing loads of hidden preferences
• Matijs Brinkhuis and his dotfiles repository
• Nicolas Gallagher and his dotfiles repository
• Sindre Sorhus
• Tom Ryder and his dotfiles repository
• Kevin Suttle and his dotfiles repository and OSXDefaults project, which aims to provide better documentation for ~/.macos
• Haralan Dobrev
• anyone who contributed a patch or made a helpful suggestion

Yet Another Repostiory on Github With Dotfiles

From the Bash man page, a brief explanation of some of the dot files:

/bin/bash
       The bash executable
/etc/profile
       The systemwide initialization file, executed for login shells
~/.bash_profile
       The personal initialization file, executed for login shells
/etc/bashrc
       The systemwide interactive shell initialization file, executed for all interactive shells, per-interactive-shell.
~/.bashrc
       The individual per-interactive-shell startup file
~/.bash_logout
       The individual login shell cleanup file, executed when a login shell exits
~/.inputrc
       Individual readline initialization file