This dotfiles fork from mathiasbynens/dotfiles, and I replaced bash with zsh and using sorin-ionescu/zprezto as zsh custom.

You can clone the repository wherever you want. (I like to keep it in ~/workspace/dotfiles) The bootstrapper script will create links at home folder.

git clone https://github.com/khsing/dotfiles.git && cd dotfiles &&  bash bootstrap.sh

If ~/.zextra 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 ~/.zextra looks something like this:

# Git credentials
# Not in the repository, to prevent people from accidentally committing under my name
GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="Guixing Bai"
GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
git config --global user.name "$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="khsing.cn@gmail.com"
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"
git config --global user.email "$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"

You could also use ~/.zextra to override settings, functions and aliases from my dotfiles repository. It’s probably better to fork this repository instead, though.

When setting up a new Mac, you may want to set some sensible OS X defaults:

./.macos

When setting up a new Mac, you may want to install some common Homebrew formulae (after installing Homebrew, of course):

./brew.sh

Suggestions/improvements welcome!

Guixing Bai

• @mathisa mathiasbynens/dotfiles
• zprezto sorin-ionescu/prezto
• @ptb and his OS X Lion Setup repository
• Ben Alman and his dotfiles repository
• Chris Gerke and his tutorial on creating an OS X SOE master image + Insta repository
• Cãtãlin Mariş and his dotfiles repository
• Gianni Chiappetta for sharing his amazing collection of dotfiles
• Jan Moesen and his ancient .bash_profile + shiny tilde repository
• Lauri ‘Lri’ Ranta for sharing loads of hidden preferences
• Matijs Brinkhuis and his dotfiles repository
• Nicolas Gallagher and his dotfiles repository
• Sindre Sorhus
• Tom Ryder and his dotfiles repository
• Kevin Suttle and his dotfiles repository and OSXDefaults project, which aims to provide better documentation for ~/.osx
• Haralan Dobrev
• anyone who contributed a patch or made a helpful suggestion