{"id":1507,"date":"2018-03-31T06:27:12","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T11:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2018-03-31T06:27:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T11:27:12","slug":"dot-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=1507","title":{"rendered":"Dot Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dot files are unix configuration files that contain your personalized settings for programs like Vim, Emacs, or tmux.\u00c2\u00a0 If you use more than one unix machine, keeping these file in sync is much easier if they&#8217;re stored in Git.\u00c2\u00a0 These instructions are how I do that.<\/p>\n<h1>Fork the GitHub repository<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/dotphiles\/dotphiles\">https:\/\/github.com\/dotphiles\/dotphiles<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Set up for GitHub<\/h1>\n<p>If the machine hasn&#8217;t been set up with GitHib, follow these instructions<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/help.github.com\/articles\/set-up-git\/\"> https:\/\/help.github.com\/articles\/set-up-git\/<\/a><br \/>\nto install Git, set your commit name and email, and install GitHub credentials.<\/p>\n<h1>Clone the repository<\/h1>\n<p><code>git clone --recursive git@github.com:zymurgeek\/dotphiles.git ~\/.dotfiles<\/code><br \/>\nDo not leave off the recursive flag!<\/p>\n<h1>Manage dot files<\/h1>\n<p>See the instructions in <code>~\/.dotfiles\/README.md<\/code>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dot files are unix configuration files that contain your personalized settings for programs like Vim, Emacs, or tmux.\u00c2\u00a0 If you use more than one unix machine, keeping these file in sync is much easier if they&#8217;re stored in Git.\u00c2\u00a0 These instructions are how I do that. Fork the GitHub repository https:\/\/github.com\/dotphiles\/dotphiles Set up for GitHub [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1510,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions\/1510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}