mauricerkelly/dotfiles — comment on commit 37a8d01bf3541c531e51802d4e231a896813444e
File: ssh/aliases.sh line 1
By mauricerkelly:

I'm not sure what you mean.

The rake script looks out for files or directories called something.symlink. under the .dotfiles directory. If it finds the .symlink extension will create a symlink called .something in the home directory to the something.symlink entries under .dotfiles (be it a file or dir).

So in the .ssh example - I have ~/.dotfiles/ssh/ssh.symlink/config. This means that rake creates a symlink from ~/.ssh to ~/.dotfiles/ssh/ssh.symlink and the config file will show up as if it is in ~/.ssh/config. Any other subdirs of ~/.dotfiles/ssh/ssh.symlink/ will also appear under ~/.ssh/.