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

git clone https://github.com/impressiver/dotfiles.git && cd dotfiles && source bootstrap.sh

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

source bootstrap.sh

Alternatively, to update while avoiding the confirmation prompt:

set -- -f; source bootstrap.sh

To install these dotfiles without Git:

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

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 ~/bin to the $PATH:

export PATH="$HOME/bin:$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:

# Git credentials
# Not in the repository, to prevent people from accidentally committing under my name
GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="<Your Name>"
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="<Your Email Address>"

GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$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.

Run this script on a shiny new Mac (new machine, or a clean install of OS X) to get your environment set up the way you like it. This is the kitchen-sink script, it runs all the other scripts after updating your dotfiles:

./recipes/makeitmine.sh

Run this to install a bunch of common apps (both CLI and Desktop), tailored toward web development:

./recipes/dev.sh

<<<<<<< HEAD You may also want to install some common Homebrew formulae (after installing Homebrew, of course):

./recipes/brew.sh

You might want to tweak the default settings from time to time, it's OK to run this more than once:

./recipes/osx.sh

If you use Dropbox, or any other cloud sync service, you can share preferences across machines using this recipe. It will individually copy app prefs in $HOME/Dropbox/.dotfiles/Library/Application Support to $HOME/Library/Application Support (after making a backup, just in case):

./recipes/prefs.sh

Suggestions/improvements welcome!

• Mathias Bynens for building an awesome dotfiles project.