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Without any license added to the project, it is under normal copyright. See http://stackoverflow.com/q/4007674/113527.

I use ubuntu 12.04 and I had to add a point to make it work at line 30
ln -s $dir/.$file ~/.$file

Hey, I just ran the install script and when it started prompting me for passwords I tried to kill it (which it resisted veimently). I lazily went along with the installation and now am wondering if there should be a removal procedure for this too. I was reading from some guys blog who made it seem like this was just for backing up your own dotfiles which seems to be not entirely the case.

To restore my system to what I'm comfortable with, I did

$  cp ~/dotfiles_old ~/dotfiles  # and remove leading periods.
$ chsh -s `which bash` # I was using the bash shell

hi,
i cloned this repo and made some changes to the .vimrc file. when i tried to add to remote origin of my own it said the repo is already exist. why?

Some linux distros run dash instead of bash. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12468889/bash-script-error-function-not-found-why-would-this-appear. The easy fix is to get rid of the function decoration and use the () instead. install_zsh () { should work in both bash and dash.

Hi,
first of all, thanks for the inspiration I got from your work!

Shouldn't it be
mv ~/.$file $olddir/
instead of
mv ~/.$file ~/dotfiles_old/
in line 28?

On BSD-like systems, -G adds color:

-G      Enable colorized output.  This option is equivalent to defining
             CLICOLOR in the environment.  (See below.)

On Linux-like systems, I think you want --color=auto or --color=always:

--color[=WHEN]
              colorize  the  output.   WHEN  defaults to ‘always’ or can be ‘never’ or ‘auto’.  More
              info below
-G, --no-group
              in a long listing, don’t print group names

This may have gone unnoticed because of the exports at the end of the bashrc.