Overview

As you would have guessed, this is my personal configuration setup. It includes
configuration for zsh, git and
mercurial, tmux, vim and
spacemacs. It attempts to be
cross-platform, meaning that this should all work on OS X and Linux without any
problems provided that a few prerequisites are in place.

Prerequisites

The Makefile expects GNU sed and stow to be installed. You probably want
to install these dependencies with Homebrew if you’re on OS
X. The following commands will install them:

brew install stow
brew install gnu-sed --with-default-names

Chances are that the correct version of sed will already be installed on
whatever flavor of Linux you’re running. Use your distro’s package manager to
install stow if it isn’t already.

Installation

Clone the repo to a directory in your home directory with

git clone --recursive http://github.com/hostsamurai/dotfiles ~/dotfiles

This will pull down all the configurations plus any submodule dependencies and
sync them to their latest versions. Run make all to symlink all dotfiles or
see the output of make help for a list of specific configurations recipes that
you can install.

Caveat Emptor

It’s a good idea to back up your own dotfiles before attempting to stow any
configration files from this repo. Also, note that the VCS recipe will prompt
you for a username and email so it can update the appropriate files with them.
It substitutes those values by running a sed command, so beware. The
beslobber
git filter prevents your actual username and email from being committed into
source control.