Deploying VCS-controlled files to home directory

[Maximilian Gass]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 08:15:41PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> My question is: What strategy would you advise to automate deployment
> of this to a new machine, and to deploy updates on existing machines
> when it changes in the VCS?

I use the script bootstrap-home which works with prep-home and
symlink-dirs which you can find at
http://git.cloudconnected.org/~mxey/bin/tree

Currently I pull the repos by hand and then run prep-home to update, but
I consider doing that via cron.