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   1 This is a set of configuration files for a bunch of Unix apps I use regularly.
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   3 The way I usually use this is as follows. Change the lines as appropriate for
   4 your system.
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   6 Install Mercurial:
   7         $ sudo apt-get install mercurial
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   9 Change into your home directory and make a clone of the repository:
  10         $ cd
  11         $ hg clone http://delx.cjb.net/hg/hgdotfiles-generic .hgdotfiles-computername
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  13 Make a backup of any existing files:
  14         $ mkdir backup
  15         $ mv .bash* .ssh .vim* .Xresources .xscreensaver .screenrc .pythonrc.py .inputrc .ssh backup
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  17 Symlink the config files into your home directory:
  18         $ for f in $(ls -A .hgdotfiles-computername); do ln -s .hgdotfiles-computername/$i .; done
  19         $ rm .hg .hgignore
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  21
  22 You're done now. You probably want to move your ssh keys back into ~/.ssh
  23 (which now links to ~/.hgdotfiles-computername/.ssh), as well as add a few
  24 machine specific configs to the bash init scripts.
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  26 Create files in ~/.bash called environment_local, interactive_local, etc to
  27 do this. Also, learn how to use Mercurial and use it to version control other
  28 configure files of yours.
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  30 For OSX/BSD you probably want to look at http://delx.net.au/hg/hgdotfiles-macosx
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  32 Here are some good Mercurial tutorials:
  33 http://hgbook.red-bean.com/
  34 http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/QuickStart
  35