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Dotfiles for Christopher Giroir kelsin@valefor.com

Goals

• Able to bootstrap a new Mac machine or Linux server easily with no dependencies other than curl or wget.
• Not having to keep entire home directory in git (as I used to do)
• Keeping external dependencies and custom scripts to a minimum

Usage

Bootstrapping

Dependencies: a posix sh and curl or wget

On a mac laptop:

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kelsin/dotfiles/master/bootstrap | sh -s mac

On a server:

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kelsin/dotfiles/master/bootstrap | sh -s server

If you need to use wget the commands become:

wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kelsin/dotfiles/master/bootstrap | sh mac
wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kelsin/dotfiles/master/bootstrap | sh server

Installing

The bootstrap will run an install initially for you, but at that point you can easily remove or install packages yourself. There is a script available that will setup the base mac or server package lists as well. Please note that if you aren't in a terminal with $STOW_DIR set to ~/.dotfiles (which is done by my ~/.env file) then you'll need to provide a -d ~/.dotfiles to all stow commands.

# Install the bash package
stow bash

# Reinstall the bash package
# this removes old symlinks as well as places new ones
stow -R bash

# Remove the bash package
stow -D bash

# List packages (only in zsh)
# this is an alias in $DOTFILES/zsh/.zsh/aliases.zsh
packages

# Install mac packages (zsh script)
$DOTFILES/install mac

# Install server packages (zsh script)
$DOTFILES/install server

Updating

Updating the dot files is as easy as running:

pushd $DOTFILES && git pull && popd

Updating all apple / brew / ruby and node packages on your machine can be done by running:

update

Apple and brew updates are done all the time, ruby and node are only done if those dotfile packages are currently stowed.

Alternatives

These are other solutions for storing your dotfiles:

• rcm rc file management utilities