Dotfile Boilerplate

Your dotfiles:

Unified. Organized. Personalized.

Quickstart

If you don’t already have a huge collection of dotfiles simply run the installer and follow the prompts:

git clone git://github.com/thcipriani/dotfile-boilerplate ~/.dotfiles
cd ~/.dotfiles
./bootstrap --new-setup

Follow the prompts

If you already have a collection of dotfiles then you should omit the --new-setup flag so that you won't be prompted to install any frameworks

What's a dotfile?

see: http://dotfiles.github.io/

Why

There is no canonical method for dotfile organization, sharing, and bootstraping that is cross-shell and cross-system compatible.

This project should work to provide dotfile-beginners with sensible defaults and advanced users with a powerful, configurable framework on which to build.

Features

At it’s core, Dotfile Boilerplate is a system for dotfile organization more than an opinionated framework.

The basic structure of Dotfile Boilerplate is based on Zach Holman's holman/dotfiles dotfiles. Configuration files are grouped by topic (e.g., "git", "vim", "zsh", etc.)., and a file named [whatever].symlink will by symlinked to ~/.[whatever].

Dotfile Boilerplate heavily "borrows" from many fine dotfile repos

• Heavily Modified holman boostrap script
• mathiasbynens exports, aliases and functions and osx where applicable
• tpope's Pathogen and sensible.vim
• gf3's Sexy Bash Prompt (for Bash Users)
• robbyrussell's Oh-my-zsh (for ZSH Users)
• sjl's Extravagant ZSH Prompt (for ZSH Users)
• carlhuda's Janus Vim Framework (for ZSH Users)
• metellius + mathiasbynens inputrc
• sjl's tmux.conf
• a very fine screenrc that's source I no longer remember

Further inspiration came from

• jclem's dotfiles
• ldmosquera's dotfile wiki
• heptal's tput abuse
• pastjean's dotfiles

All of that can, of course, be overridden.

Learn More

Checkout the documentation.

Contributing

Fork me and send me a pull request =)