My dotfiles

Just a bunch of dotfiles I've collected over the years. The primary purposes of this repository for me is to:

1. keep the setup time of a new machine to under 10 minutes
2. keep multiple machines in sync (home vs office laptop)

By convention, I create a new branch when I join a new company (from the HEAD of the last company I was at) and set it as the repo's main branch in Github. I used to try to keep the master branch clean without company specific aliases etc, but it was not worth it; way better to pay the cost of removing company specific stuff once every few years rather than try to keep separate over several hundred commits.

My Workflow

This is what I typically run on a brand new machine to get it setup:

1. git clone [email protected]:entombedvirus/dotfiles.git ~/cl # some scripts in the repo assume the ~/cl path
2. cd ~/cl/
3. ./install.sh # this installs all the packages needed for my dev env using homebrew and apt-get
4. ./linkify # this creates symlinks to files inside cl repo. ex: $HOME/.vimrc -> $HOME/cl/vim/.vimrc etc

Note on automatic symlink creation

The automatic symlink creation is managed by GNU stow. In order to use it, you create a directory structure mirroring your home directory inside your dotfiles repo and then call stow. Check out this article if you're interested in more details.

Forking

If you're interested in using this repo as your starting point, please fork it instead of cloning it directly. I make no guarantees on backwards compatibility and often do break things as I find better ways to do things.