Host your configuration files on github

My .vimrc and .bashrc is pretty highly customized. As such it doesn't make sense for me to rewrite them on my various machines (laptop + netbook + pc). Even copy and pasting them ain't no fun.

The solution is to host a master copy of these files online. Github is great for that. It offers a free repository that allows you to version your files using git. So I've created a github repository for my config files.


cd ~/apps
mkdir config-files
cd config-files
git init
touch README
git add README
git commit -m 'first commit'
git remote add origin git@github.com:jasonong/config-files.git
git push origin master
cp ~/.bashrc .
cp ~/.vimrc .
git add .
git commit -m 'Added bash and vim config files'
git push origin master

So now that's left is to symlink the actual config files to my local repository.

cd ~
ln -s apps/config-files/.bashrc .bashrc
ln -s apps/config-files/.vimrc .vimrc

So I can do git clone and symlink these config files on my other machines. Best way to synchronize my files and versioning thrown in too!