From 21debe133a0bcc9a58c0d23a3af6e5867384afaf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?J=2E=20Fernando=20S=C3=A1nchez?= Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 02:22:56 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Modified README to include the stow system --- README.md | 14 +++++++++----- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index f655b09..6ff9cc8 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -12,12 +12,16 @@ The fast way: curl -#L https://github.com/balkian/dotfiles/tarball/master | tar -xzv --strip-components 1 --exclude={README.md} ``` ### Install +Each folder contains the configuration files for a specific program, as they would appear under "$HOME" (~). +To install them, first initialize the submodules: -Just run: -```bash +``` git submodule update --init --recursive -source make.sh ``` -## How it works -So far, this is the simplest way of keeping your dotfiles in a repository. The installation script will just back-up your files in a folder in your ~/ with the timestamp, so running it twice won't destroy your original files. +Then, you can use the [GNU Stow](https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/) utility to link the files to the appropriate folder: +```bash +stow +``` + +Alternatively, you may simply copy the files to your $HOME folder. \ No newline at end of file