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| author | Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz> | 2014-09-28 15:44:43 +1300 |
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| committer | Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz> | 2014-09-28 15:44:43 +1300 |
| commit | 90f8def3250435f4affb3da660df03f9f59de49d (patch) | |
| tree | 73bc5269e8eb73c26ef4399639d602590f6049df /README.markdown | |
| parent | Allow specifying default tmux session name (diff) | |
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Use install(1) rather than symlinking
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown index a6716521..2442bd40 100644 --- a/README.markdown +++ b/README.markdown @@ -64,9 +64,15 @@ the defaults. Installation ------------ -The installation `Makefile` will delete things standing in the way of its -symbolic links, so read the output of `make -n install` first to make sure you -aren’t going to lose anything unexpected. +The installation `Makefile` will overwrite things standing in the way of its +installed files without backing them up, so read the output of `make -n +install` first to make sure you aren’t going to lose anything unexpected. Even +better, if you’re still not sure, give it a temporary directory to which it can +install to check things out: + + $ mktemp -d + /tmp/tmp.YZFW8ScFZP + $ make install HOME=/tmp/tmp.YZFW8ScFZP You’ll need to have a recent enough version of Git to support [submodules](http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Tools-Submodules) for the Vim @@ -109,17 +115,7 @@ My `.bash_profile` calls `.profile` for variable exports, and then runs `.bashrc` for interactive shells. Subscripts are kept in `.bashrc.d`, and all are loaded for the creation of any new interactive shell. The contents of this directory changes all the time depending on the host, and only specific scripts -in it are versioned; the rest are ignored locally: - -```bash -$ git ls-files --others --exclude-standard >>.git/info/exclude -``` - -There’s an `others` alias for the above command in `~/.gitconfig`: - -```bash -$ git others >>.git/info/exclude -``` +in it are versioned. My interactive and scripting shell of choice is Bash; as a GNU/Linux admin who ends up installing Bash on BSD machines anyway, I very rarely have to write |