These are my personal dotfiles, which I manage with the help of git and a nice tool called dotfiles. This is the base dotfiles repository which contains what I want to have available in a basic shell environment.

This section is a working draft

Bash is a great shell and available in most *nix based OSes. I belive that my configuration requires bash 4 but I'm not sure.

Bash related features are:

• /.bashrc
  • Detection and activation of default environment for rvm/nvm/venvburrito
  • Minimalistic but feature packed prompt
  • Small collection of aliases
• /.bash.d/
  • Tab completions
  • z
• .dircolors
• .inputrc

• .tigrc - Tig is as nice and simple Git gui-like text mode based tool.
• .tmux.conf - tmux is a terminal multiplexer (like the more famous screen).
• .ackrc - ack is a programmers grep for searching source code without too much hassle.

A bunch of scripts in /.bin/. Both general scripts things specifically targeting git.

Install the dotfiles package, either using pip (recommended) or easy_install. Maybe with some help of sudo.

pip install dotfiles

Create some directory where to store multiple dotfiles repositories.

mkdir -p ~/repos/dotfiles

Clone this repository into that directory.

git clone https://github.com/thomasf/dotfiles-thomasf-base ~/repos/dotfiles/base

And symlink it's contents into your home directory.

dotfiles -s -R ~/repos/dotfiles/base

Also check out dotfiles -h or the dotfiles manual for more information on the hows and whats of that tool.