how to setup fresh machine from repository ala joey's home.git

[Jan Ptacek]

Hello,

I'm trying to setup home-dir versioning ala Joey Hess,
but it's a bit unclear how is the whole thing bootstraped.

I though that I should manually git clone (mine version of)
http://git.kitenet.net/?p=joey/home.git;a=summary
thus obtain the ~/bin/mr and ~/.mrconfig
a then just let 'mr co'  finish it all.

but I've run into a problem, cos I don't know how to git clone (mine)
remote home.git
into my home, cos git gives me
fatal: destination directory already exists.
(and I do not have root access on all machines)

and what is more perplexing to me:
Joey's own .mrconfig specifies following checkout cmd for his home:
[]
order = 1
checkout =
          git clone ssh://joey@git.kitenet.net/srv/git/joey/home joey
Is he really checking out his home into ~joey/joey ?


best
Jan