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authorGravatar Jon Bernard <jbernard@tuxion.com> 2011-06-04 19:15:51 -0400
committerGravatar Jon Bernard <jbernard@tuxion.com> 2011-06-04 19:15:51 -0400
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@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ Dotfile management made easy
``dotfiles`` is a tool to make managing your dotfile symlinks in ``$HOME``
easy, allowing you to keep all your dotfiles in a single directory.
-Hosting is left to you. Yes, I've seen `<http://dotfiles.org>`_ and I don't
-believe in that model. If you're advanced enough to need dotfile management,
-then you probably already know how you want to host them. Using whatever VCS
-you prefer, or even rsync, you can easily distribute your dotfiles repository
+Hosting is left to you. Yes, I've seen `<http://dotfiles.org>`_ but I don't
+like that model. If you're advanced enough to need dotfile management, then you
+probably already know how you want to host them. Using whatever VCS you
+prefer, or even rsync, you can easily distribute your dotfiles repository
across multiple hosts.
Installation
@@ -51,6 +51,22 @@ To make it available to all your hosts: ::
You get the idea.
+Configuration
+-------------
+
+You can choose to create a configuration file to store personal
+customizations. By default, ``dotfiles`` will look in ``~/.dotfilesrc``. An
+example configuration file might look like: ::
+
+ [dotfiles]
+ repository = ~/Dotfiles
+ ignore = [
+ '.git',
+ '.gitignore']
+ externals = {
+ '.bzr.log': '/dev/null',
+ '.uml': '/tmp'}
+
License
-------