Initially copied from phillipuniverse

Same steps as Holman's:

• brew install zsh
• brew install rbenv
• brew install autojump
• brew install coreutils # These are the gnu versions of stuff for coloring
• brew install hub # GitHub CLI: https://hub.github.com/
• git clone git://github.com/cdoolittle/dotfiles ~/.dotfiles
• cd ~/.dotfiles
• Modify ~/.dotfiles/git/gitconfig.symlink and put your real information there.
• brew install grc (optional, will add color to a few utilities)
• rake install
• chsh -s /bin/zsh (make sure this path exists on your machine or you're gonna have a bad time)

The install rake task will symlink the appropriate files in .dotfiles to your home directory. Everything is configured and tweaked within ~/.dotfiles, though.

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.
• topic/*.completion.sh: Any files ending in completion.sh get loaded last so that they get loaded after we set up zsh autocomplete functions.

Items that are in private/ will not get committed into git should you choose to share your repo. Files inside that end in .zsh or .symlink will still function however.

Also, git/gitconfig.symlink is set to be ignored as well, and I recommend you move your private ~/.gitconfig into git/gitconfig.symlink for consistency.

Thanks to Zach Holman. Seriously, go check out his repository and theory on dotfiles. I agree with all of it, and would never have created this without seeing his first.

You might get some problems with curl and certificates, an error like this: SSL: can't load CA certificate file /usr/local/opt/curl-ca-bundle/share/ca-bundle.crt If you do, run this:

echo $SSL_CERT_FILE
# output will likely be SSL_CERT_FILE=/usr/local/opt/curl-ca-bundle/share/ca-bundle.crt which is wrong
# Run this to fix it
export SSL_CERT_FILE=

Then retry the brew install commands. When you’re done setting things up, put the export command inside of ~/.dotfiles/system/env.sh