Everything starts with configuring your development environment.
So dot files play a role when setting up your MAC or Linux system. As many before I'm creating my own dot files repository by analysing and adapting good solutions that already exists. My main reference is the dot files repository from Paul Irish. Find his repository here.
Use the command collection in setup-machine.sh to prepare the system to use these dot files. Before executing read the content of the file setup-machine.sh.
After this link or copy the files to your home directory. For the .gitconfig file it is necessary to add your Git's user configuration user.name, user.email
Code released under an MIT license.
Fork away, do whatever. Pull requests welcome.