Initially forked from https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles.

You can clone the repository wherever you want. (I like to keep it in ~/.dotfiles.) The bootstrapper script will pull in the latest version and copy the files to your home folder.

git clone https://github.com/p3k/dotfiles.git && cd dotfiles

To update, cd into your local dotfiles repository and then:

git pull

To activate a dotfile simply create a symbolic link in your home directory:

ln -s /path/to/dotfiles/.exports ~

To install these dotfiles without Git:

cd; curl -#L https://github.com/p3k/dotfiles/tarball/master | tar -xzv --strip-components 1 --exclude={README.md,bootstrap.sh}

To update later on, just run that command again.

If ~/.path exists, it will be sourced along with the other files, before any feature testing (such as detecting which version of ls is being used) takes place.

Here’s an example ~/.path file that adds ~/utils to the $PATH:

export PATH="$HOME/utils:$PATH"

If ~/.extra exists, it will be sourced along with the other files. You can use this to add a few custom commands without the need to fork this entire repository, or to add commands you don’t want to commit to a public repository.

My ~/.extra looks something like this:

# PATH additions
export PATH="~/bin:$PATH"

# Git credentials
# Not in the repository, to prevent people from accidentally committing under my name
GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="Tobi Schäfer"
GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
git config --global user.name "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="interface@p3k.org"
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"
git config --global user.email "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"

You could also use ~/.extra to override settings, functions and aliases from my dotfiles repository. It’s probably better to fork this repository instead, though.

When setting up a new Mac, you may want to set some sensible OS X defaults:

./.osx

• Mathias Bynens for the fork
• Gianni Chiappetta for sharing his amazing collection of dotfiles
• Matijs Brinkhuis and his dotfiles repository
• Jan Moesen and his ancient .bash_profile + shiny tilde repository
• Ben Alman and his dotfiles repository
• Nicolas Gallagher and his dotfiles repository
• Tom Ryder and his dotfiles repository
• Chris Gerke and his tutorial on creating an OS X SOE master image + Insta repository
• @ptb and his OS X Lion Setup repository
• Lauri ‘Lri’ Ranta for sharing loads of hidden preferences
• Tim Esselens
• anyone who contributed a patch or made a helpful suggestion