Dotfiles Base

This project serves as a base standard linux developer installation without complicated dotfiles configuration.

Install

• Clone the repository to ~/.dotfiles/.
• Run the dotfiles command cd ~/.dotfiles && ./dotfiles
• Change shells to ZSH chsh -s $(which zsh)

Update

• Run the command dotfiles from anywhere.

Managing dotfiles

The best way to manage dotfiles is to maintain a copy of the dotfiles with your own customizations. These changes SHOULD NEVER be committed to a public repo and are mainly to ease in the setup of a new system just for you.

Structure

• dotfiles/link - Files here will be symlinked to the corresponding location into $HOME.
• dotfiles/copy - Files here will be copied to the corresponding location into $HOME.
• dotfiles/system - Files here will be copied to the corresponding location into /.
• dotfiles/init - Files here will be sourced/executed only when dotfiles is executed.
• dotfiles/source - Files here will always be sourced/executed for every terminal.

Common Customize Patterns

• Link Sublime Text license file link/.config/sublime-text-3/Local/License.sublime_license
• Link SSH config link/.ssh/config
• Change packages installed by APT and NPM init/10_ubuntu.sh
• Create init script to create clone git repos init/12_repos.sh

   mkdir -p ~/Workspace
  
   if ! cd ~/Workspace/project; then
   	cd ~/Workspace && git clone git@project.git
   fi