From 8c0c9aaaf648bbf75cf8d90ccb2e2ac7c88c2016 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mathias Bynens Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 12:13:51 +0100 Subject: README: Add Git-less installation instructions Closes #35. --- README.md | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 0758b7a..5009182 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -2,14 +2,10 @@ ## Installation -```bash -git clone https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles.git && cd dotfiles && ./bootstrap.sh -``` - -When setting up a new Mac, you may want to set some sensible OS X defaults: +### Using Git and the bootstrap script ```bash -./.osx +git clone https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles.git && cd dotfiles && ./bootstrap.sh ``` To update, `cd` into your local `dotfiles` repository and then: @@ -24,10 +20,31 @@ Alternatively, to update while avoiding the confirmation prompt: ./bootstrap.sh -f ``` +### Git-free install + +To install these dotfiles without Git: + +```bash +cd; curl -#L https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/tarball/master | tar -x --strip-components 1 --exclude={README.md,bootstrap.sh} +``` + +To update later on, just run that command again. + +### Sensible OS X defaults + +When setting up a new Mac, you may want to set some sensible OS X defaults: + +```bash +./.osx +``` + +## Feedback + Suggestions/improvements [welcome](https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/issues)! ## Thanks to… + * [Gianni Chiappetta](http://gf3.ca/) for sharing his [amazing collection of dotfiles](https://github.com/gf3/dotfiles) * [Matijs Brinkhuis](http://hotfusion.nl/) and his [homedir repository](https://github.com/matijs/homedir) * [Jan Moesen](http://jan.moesen.nu/) and his [ancient `.bash_profile`](https://gist.github.com/1156154) + [shiny tilde repository](https://github.com/janmoesen/tilde) -- cgit v1.2.3