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My concern is that neither the file nor its target are an actual dotfile - which deviates from the primary focus. At the very least it would require a significant change to the command line interface and the line between dotfile-management and generic-document-store starts to blur. But perhaps that's a good direction to consider. I'll think on it and will leave this open here in case others have input. It's an interesting idea, thank you for sharing.

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I agree that they are not technically dotfiles, as in, they are not stored on home, and are not named with a dot.

They are dotfiles in the sense that they are user configuration files for an application. In fact, on ubuntu these same files reside on ~/.config/sublime-text-2

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Ok, I see. Yes, in Linux you could use the package feature to handle this, but on OSX something like the internals idea you proposed above would be required.

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I think this is very useful. There are some files just not directly in ~. For example, .ssh/config.

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@iveney since .ssh/config is nested only one level, you can use the packages feature, See: https://github.com/jbernard/dotfiles#packages

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Thanks. I am using this feature. The proposed feature will be more general
and is also useful though.

On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Jon Bernard [email protected]:

@iveney https://github.com/iveney since .ssh/config is nested only one
level, you can use the packages feature, See:
https://github.com/jbernard/dotfiles#packages

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I think I've got this done now. In master you'll find the ability to add dotfiles at any nested depth, and dotifles will maintain the directory structure automatically. Take it for a spin if you're interested, it's a pretty big change from the previous version and I hope to have it releases on pypi in a week or so.

Cheers

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