-This package provides automatic synchronization of assorted dotfiles,
-simplifying the maintnance of a uniform configuration across several
-hosts.
+This repository contains public dotfiles for my basic workstation.
+Use my `dotfiles-framework`_ to install.
-The basic implentation was by Steve Kemp at
- http://dotfiles.repository.steve.org.uk
-
-To install it, simple replace your ~/.bashrc file with mine (or at
-least replace the portions dealing with ~.dotfiles). Whenever you
-open a bash shell, that code will check for the existence of a
-~/.dotfiles directory, and if necessary, download it from my public
-repository (ideally using git, but it falls back on wgetting a
-tarball). It then creates simlinks to any dotfiles that you had been
-missing automatically.
-
-After installation, the code in your .bashrc file will check for
-weekly updates at the central server. Any updates to the files that
-it controls (i.e. dotfiles symlinked into ~/.dotfiles/_XXX) will be
-applied automatically.
-
-In order to increase your local installation's similarity with the
-central server, take a look at the differences between your installed
-dotfiles and those in ~/.dotfile with
- cd ~/.dotfiles
- make localdiff | less
-If you see a few places where you like your local version better, make
-a patch, and save the hunks in (see *making local.patch* below)
- ~/.dotfiles/local.patch
-You can do a dry run of any update with
- cd ~/.dotfiles && ./fixup.sh --dry-run
-or overide with
- cd ~/.dotfiles && ./fixup.sh --dry-run --force
-Then put .dotfiles in control with
- make override
-which will replace all your local dotfiles with their .dotfiles version
-and then patch them as you specified in local.patch.
-
-
-Making local.patch
-
-Set up your installed dotfiles as you want them to be. (TODO: helper
-script for partial, interactive merges of the central version.) Then
-just
- make localpatch
+.. _dotfiles-framework:
+ http://blog.tremily.us/posts/dotfiles/
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