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authorSean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>2018-04-15 11:26:50 -0700
committerSean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>2018-04-15 11:26:50 -0700
commit5f1b847894dc3098309bfeef9bf62623314cf4e5 (patch)
tree9c1554bc0d44cd2e690f502bd2987e8e6bde9b97
parent2540b5389c633e7aeead2e3bcb43de0e19787965 (diff)
downloaddotfiles-5f1b847894dc3098309bfeef9bf62623314cf4e5.tar.gz
update README
-rw-r--r--README13
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/README b/README
index ce052d23..a44c7860 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -5,16 +5,13 @@ written is GPL v3 or any later versions published by the FSF.
The master branch should work on most hosts, and host-specific
configurations for host `host.domain' live in the branch `host'. All
such host branches have master as their parent and are rebased onto
-master: the only exception is some branches based on `win32' for
-specific Windows hosts.
+master.
This restriction is to make usage less complex, even if it results in
some patches being duplicated between multiple host branches (that
aren't suitable for master). My dotfiles are too important for the
-repository to require time-consuming, complex rebase operations. In
-particular, the restriction allows for the `mr update' and `mr rebase'
-commands to be simple scripts that almost always do exactly what's
-needed.
+repository to require time-consuming, complex rebase operations. I
+use ~/bin/git-dotfiles-rebase to do the rebasing.
===========================
Minimal system requirements
@@ -34,8 +31,8 @@ Minimal setup
1. Get the repo
- $ git clone https://github.com/spwhitton/dotfiles.git $HOME/src/dotfiles
+ % git clone https://github.com/spwhitton/dotfiles.git $HOME/src/dotfiles
2. Run bootstrap script:
- $ $HOME/src/dotfiles/bin/bstraph.sh
+ % $HOME/src/dotfiles/bin/bstraph.sh