[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 links instead of just using hard links. I've had better luck with sylinks (various things can accidentially break a hard link, in a non-obvious way), but do have to use hardlinks for a few things. IIRC fetchmail refuses to use a symlink for example. > Also, I fail to see the point in having a dotfiles directory. It might > make it easy to break things up into generic dotfiles that apply to all > machines that you use and go in the dotfiles directory, and dotfiles that > are only used on particular machines and go in various > dotfiles-machinename directories. But aside from that, why not just create > the git repository directly in your homedir? Give it a .gitignore file > that ignores everything (contains one line with just a *), then add to the > repo only the files you want to version with commands like `git add -f > ..muttrc`. I have several dotfiles that I don't want to share to every machine with a checkout of my home directory, so need multiple repositories. -- see shy jo
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