Managing user configuration files across multiple computers

Question

I keep a folder at ~/config/ which is a bzr repository. I push/pull the repository between my various computers to sync it up. I have an install script which I use to make symlinks to my home directory:

#! /bin/sh
# link all files to the home directory, asking about overwrites
cd `dirname $0`
SCRIPT_DIR=`pwd`
SCRIPT_NAME=`basename $0`
FILES=`bzr ls --versioned --non-recursive`

cd $HOME
for FILE in $FILES; do
    ln --symbolic --interactive $SCRIPT_DIR/$FILE
done
rm $TARGET_DIR/$SCRIPT_NAME

If you want to use git instead of bzr, you can instead use:

FILES=`git ls-tree --name-only HEAD`

(I had to ask SO to figure that out)

EDIT: I don’t actually do this anymore, now I have a dotfiles repo on github, with a nice rake install script that someone else wrote.

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