dotfiles

[1] Dotfiles are a way to speed up your workflow. Basically just saving your system scripts to a Git repo, which allows you to manage & iterate on them easily. Also makes it easy to move environments and sync between machines etc.. [1] https://github.com/holman/dotfiles

I use this: https://github.com/holman/dotfiles.git Dotfiles are stored in git, and run a script that creates symlinks to those dotfiles

You bring up some good points, and we're always improving pages like these (the 404 itself has gone through a few versions this year already). I don't think the answer is forcing the canonical URL on every page request, though. I think it's important to retain branch names instead of the full sha. I find this, for example: https://github.com/holman/dotfiles/blob/master/osx/set-defaults.sh …far more usable and meaningful than this: https://github.com/holman/dotfiles/blob/0fe9e9963b2389eae4c9de49a4873bd819e19067/o… It'd be great to be able to support file renames and deleted branches better in the product, but that takes some time to build out. Hopefully we can do better with that in the future (and we have been working on things like this recently- supporting repository redirects was a huge one, really).

I cloned Zach Holman's (holman) dot files implementation[1]. Mine [2] is basically Ian's torn apart and put back together (so i could understand it). It consists of symlinked rc files, and env and private_env files which get run at login / profile boots. The private env stuff (passwords, api keys, etc) are cloned from my home server or from encrypted Dropbox folder (still figuring out how I want to handle that) 1: https://github.com/holman/dotfiles 2: https://github.com/pfarrell/dotfiles