Nathan's dotfiles repository

This is how Nathan replicates his environment to all the machines he works on. Feel free to steal anything useful.

The idea is to put everything valuable in ~/dotfiles, but symlink stuff wherever it would normally be. A helper script sets up the links.

Quick Install

git clone git://github.com/nathanic/dotfiles.git
cd dotfiles
./setup_links

Subdirectory Organization

• bin: useful homemade helper scripts/programs
• config: top level dotfiles linked into ~/
• perhost: files that are meant to be sourced on a per-host basis, named like ${HOSTNAME}.bashrc

Setup Script

The script setup_links is meant to be run from within the root of the dotfiles repo. Right now it links everything in config/ to ~/, and links everything in bin/ into ~/bin/. It's designed not to screw with anything that already exists. You can run it to fixup links after doing a pull, if something has changed.

I am considering not linking the bin/ files and just adding dotfiles/bin/ into my $PATH.