robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh — pull request #846 by thedeeno (2012-01-18 01:59:29+00:00)
Title: Added Feature: Local customizations folder

*Problem*:

Zsh configuration is very personal. Because of the way oh-my-zsh deals with customizations there's been an explosion of pull requests for very personal changes. This is likely already becoming a maintenance burden. Further, imo, only generic functionality should be added to this main repo - not personal adjustments and tweaks.

*One solution*:

Allow users to make tweaks outside of the repo.

In this pull I added the concept of 'local customizations'. Instead of adding tweaks to `~/.oh-my-zsh` you can instead add them to `~/.zsh`. You can then separately track this folder in a personal repo. I added mine to my dotfiles repo, for example.

This is backward compatible with the `/custom` folder, but imo we should phase that idea out.