On a debian/ubuntu box, run this:

sudo apt-get install sudo git ruby zsh tmux vim-nox ncurses-bin nocache
git clone https://github.com/vanviegen/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles
~/.dotfiles/install

The install script creates symlinks from your home dir into the ~/.dotfiles dir. It also installs an appropriate terminfo to use for 256 color tmux. If your default shell isn't set to zsh yet, it'll ask for your password in order to set it. For this change to take effect, you'll need to start a new login session (i.e. logout of your window manager).

Everything is configured and tweaked within ~/.dotfiles.

You'll want to change ~/.dotfiles/git/gitconfig.symlink, which will set you up committing as me. You probably don't want that.

In ~/.dotfiles do a git pull followed by an ./install. The latter will cause new symlinks to be created and stale symlinks to be removed from your home dir. Additionally, it will update any submodules (used for vim extensions).

Everything's built around topic areas. If you're adding a new area to your forked dotfiles — say, "Java" — you can simply add a java directory and put files in there. Anything with an extension of .zsh will get automatically included into your shell. Anything with an extension of .symlink will get symlinked without extension into $HOME when you run ~/.dotfiles/install.

There's a few special files in the hierarchy.

• bin/: Anything in bin/ will get added to your $PATH and be made available everywhere.
• topic/*.zsh: Any files ending in .zsh get loaded into your environment.
• topic/*.symlink: Any files ending in *.symlink get symlinked into your $HOME. This is so you can keep all of those versioned in your dotfiles but still keep those autoloaded files in your home directory. These get symlinked in when you run rake install.

Forked from https://github.com/holman/dotfiles