If I may, a small plug for my solution to this problem: https://bitbucket.org/davidn/dotstuff https://bitbucket.org/davidn/dotstuff I settled on copying rathe

If I may, a small plug for my solution to this problem: https://bitbucket.org/davidn/dotstuff https://bitbucket.org/davidn/dotstuff I settled on copying rather than symlinking, which has the benefit that the source files can be passed through a simple preprocessor to do some customization for different systems. Also you can get a diff between your current files and the state that you just synced.