mathiasbynens / mathiasbynens/dotfiles
symlinks or rsync?
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Description
Hey there!
What an awesome repo, I'm quite inspired to dive in and write my own configs!
This isn't an issue as much as a question about a design decision you made in bootstrap.sh .
I'm curious why you use rsync to install the dotfiles instead of creating symlinks.
If there's no obvious reason why I shouldn't then I'll probably rewrite it to use symlinks in my fork.
Thanks!
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Research direction
Start by reading bootstrap.sh and tracing how rsync installs the dotfiles. Compare that behavior with the proposed symlink approach; the work is complete when the installation approach is decided and bootstrap.sh is updated if a change is accepted.
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