These are my dotfiles. I use them on linux systems, mostly ubuntu. YMMV, but feedback is most welcome. If you can help me make them work for you, I'd be very happy to entertain suggestions or (better) pull requests. The best way to offer suggestions is often by filing issues. You can also just send me mail. All my info is on my github page.

I was motivated by holman and ryanb. And yet some bits of what they do doesn't sync with the way my brain works, or the way my fingers work, or my tastes at the moment. Probably I mostly misunderstood them, for which I offer that engineer's or scientist's apology that mixes great respect with bull-headed determination to do something else: this works for me.

I have a couple design criteria that are important to me. My machine should be fully functional without a network connection (except for the absence of network). Nothing in my config should be broken by development in my git dotfiles: so no symlinks, only copies. I should be able to test without installing or updating. And installing on a new machine or updating an existing machine should be easy.

Run this:

git clone https://github.com/JeffAbrahamson/dotfiles.git
cd dotfiles
./test.sh
./install.sh

The code is organized by topic. The directory scripts/ is purely administrative, everything else does about what you'd expect it to. I mostly strip the leading dot from file names so that I can see everything easily when working on my dotfiles. The install scripts sort out those details.

Each topic directory has its own tiny README, in case what I think is obvious isn't.

I'd like this to be clean and elegant and to mostly work for everyone. That said, I don't often test as people who aren't me, and this is a background utility project, so goodness knows if it will really work for you out of the box. I'm pretty sure it won't hurt, up to overwriting some of your dotfiles if you run install.sh.

If you see problems or opportunities for improvement, please open an issue on this repository.

Zack Holman does a great job of marketing git and github and his own projects. Time and again he inspires me with some bit of code or idea for automating something.

In addition, I looked at a bunch of dotfile repos on github when I first started writing mine.

• Zach Holman
• Ryan Bates
• bash-it
• Mathias Bynens
• ghar

And then, the dotfiles themselves are the result and cruft of endless years of using linux and unix-like machines.