My dotfiles, forked from the excellent Holman's dotfiles
git clone git://github.com/kratob/dotfiles ~/.dotfiles
cd ~/.dotfiles
rake install
The install rake task will symlink the appropriate files in .dotfiles
to your
home directory. Everything is configured and tweaked within ~/.dotfiles
,
though.
It works a bit different to Holman's version:
- You need to include the dots (so it's
.zshrc.symlink
) - If you put things in subdirectories, the directory structure (below the topmost) is kept. So the
awesome/.config/awesome.symlink
gets symlinked to~/.config/awesome
, but~/.config
itself is left alone.
The main file you'll want to change right off the bat is zsh/zshrc.symlink
,
which sets up a few paths that'll be different on your particular machine.
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 .zsh
will get automatically
included into your shell. Anything with an extension of .symlink
will get
symlinked without extension into $HOME
when you run rake install
.
I forked Zach Holman's excellent dotfiles, who in turn forked Ryan Bates' excellent dotfiles.