Re: Keeping your dotfiles in git

2008-08-27 Thread chombee
Ok, I see the points regarding why you should use symlinks, why it's worth putting things in a dotfiles directory, and why you can't just use a single ln command to create the symlinks. I wonder what you should use instead then? A simple script seems to be in order. If I were to write a script I

Re: Keeping your dotfiles in git

2008-08-26 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Second, to create all the symlinks you only need a simple command not a script: `ln -s ~/dotfiles/* ~/`. That won't deal with dotfiles that are renamed or deleted. I'm not entirely clear on why, in the examples I've seen, the -s option is used to create symbolic