dotfiles

My dot files shared between 💻

Installation

Note: The bootstrap.exclude.sh script creates symlinks from the dotfiles in this directory to the HOME directory. Make sure that your dotfiles are backed up somewhere safe.

Open a terminal and follow along!

1. Clone this repository: git clone https://github.com/oussaka/dotfiles
2. CD into the folder: cd dotfiles
3. Execute the bootstrap script: sh ./bootstrap.exclude.sh
4. Restart your terminal or run source .bash_profile

Customizing

• You can customize these dotfiles using .local files. These can be used to add custom commands or configure things that you don't want to commit to a public repo.

For example, to overwrite stuff in the .bash_profile file, make a file called .bash_profile.local and put your stuff in there.

Note: When you make a new .local file, you'll have to run sh ./bootstrap.exclude.sh before it can be used. You only have to run the linking part though, so choose y for that one part and n for the rest.

• Save env vars, etc in a .extra file, that looks something like this:

Git credentials

GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="Your Name" GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME" git config --global user.name "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"

GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="[email protected]" GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL" git config --global user.email "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"

Gmail credentials for mutt

export GMAIL=[email protected] export GMAIL_NAME="Your Name" export GMAIL_FROM=[email protected]