Dotfiles and symlinks for portability

##Cloning dotfiles to another machine ###Clone this repository

git clone git://github.com/edwardchan/dotfiles.git

###Make script executable Once the repository has been cloned into the home directory, change into the dotfiles directory and make the makesymlinks.sh executable

cd ~/dotfiles
chmod +x makesymlinks.sh
./makesymlinks.sh

Warning: If you’re running Debian Linux, this will most likely install zsh on your system if it isn’t already installed. This is a feature I added to my script to automate things as much as possible. If for some reason you don’t want zsh to be installed on your computer (e.g. you’re on somebody else’s server), remove the install_zsh line from makesymlinks.sh. This will cause it to set up all of your dotfiles without attempting to install zsh.

That’s it! If the settings don’t take effect right away, just log out and log back in to re-source the dotfiles.