Why I use git and puppet to manage my dotfiles

Re:Why I use git and puppet to manage my dotfiles by aonic on Monday May 16, 2011 @04:01PM (#2553940)

I agree that its overkill for the use case mentioned in the article, a Makefile would be more than sufficient. I do the same for my vim configuration using `make`: https://github.com/aonic/vim-settings/blob/master/Makefile

Usage:

  git clone https://github.com/aonic/vim-settings.git
  cd vim-settings
  make

Remove:

  make clean

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Re:Why I use git and puppet to manage my dotfiles by jlogsdon on Monday May 16, 2011 @04:40PM (#2554079)

Nice method, but with a bash script you wouldn't have to manually add any new files to your Makefile. I use this one: https://gist.github.com/975295. Also handles forcibly linking a file if it exists already (with the -f flag).

Of course, you're just using it for one folder so it's not an issue for you ;)

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