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Re: Having Git follow symlinks

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Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 30, 2014, 10:09 UTC
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On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se> wrote:
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> Johan Herland:
>
>> I believe a preferable way to manage dotfiles in Git, is to have a script
>> that does the necessary setup/installation from the repo (that lives in some
>> subdirectory of ~) and into ~.

There are tools these days to manage dot files. See for example:

https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh

Best, Christian.

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  4. Christian CouderJan 30, 2014
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