README.md

dotfiles

Custom Linux config files managed by GNU stow.

Inspired and based on config files from Ubuntu's default profile settings, Mathias' dotfiles, and xero's dotfiles.

Prerequisites

Well, you don't have to have GNU stow, but it certainly makes maintaining the system links easy.

sudo apt-get install stow

Installation

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/doublecompile/dotfiles.git
cd dotfiles
stow bash
stow git
stow ssh

Make sure to remove your existing configuration beforehand, otherwise stow will barf a nice error about the files already existing.

Specific Configuration

Bash

All of the content of this section was lifted from Mathias' dotfiles.

Specify the $PATH

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 /usr/local/bin to the $PATH:

export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"

Add custom commands without creating a new fork

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.

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.

Git

You can place additional global config into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config (See git-config). On my system, this is ~/.config/git/config.

My ~/.config/git/config looks like this:

[user]
	name = Jonathan Hawk
	email = jonathan@hawk.ninja

Do note that anything in ~/.gitconfig overwrites these settings.