My common dot files... Setting Up ---------- Run the install script to have them linked into place. The script will intialize and update the submodules and svn repos for you. It will also move any existing files to an .orig extension so your orginal files should still be intact. It will also only create the symlink if the files are not already symlinks. NOTE: ----- These are *my* dot files so for example, the gitconfig has my name and email in it. If you are not me, I would advise at least editing that file with your own credentials. It's the only one off the top of my head but I would advise looking the others over anyway. linked_modules -------------- This is a mount point for 3rd party repositories and thier files are symlinked back into the paths of the dotfiles directory. I maintain the symlinks manually as there are a case or two where I use my own version instead of upstream's. TODO ---- Maybe add the NERDSnippits plugin scrooloose's vimfiles is full of things to study http://github.com/scrooloose/vimfiles/tree/master mike@cryingwhilecoding.com