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From: Anish Athalye <aathalye@me.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 22:33:05 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add README

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+Dotfiles Template
+=================
+
+This is a template repository for bootstraping your dotfiles with [Dotbot][1].
+
+To get started, you can [fork][2] this repository (and probably delete this
+README and rename your version to something like just `dotfiles`).
+
+In general, I suggest using symbolic links for everything, and using git
+submodules whenever possible.
+
+To keep submodules at their proper versions, you could include something like
+`git submodule update --init --recursive` in your `install.conf.json`.
+
+To upgrade your submodules to their latest versions, you could periodically run
+something like the following.
+
+```bash
+git submodule foreach 'git checkout master && git pull && cd "${toplevel}" && git add ":/${path}"'
+```
+
+Inspiration
+-----------
+
+If you're looking for inspiration for how to structure your dotfiles or what
+kinds of things you can include, you could take a look at some repos using
+Dotbot.
+
+* [anishathalye's dotfiles][3]
+
+If you're using Dotbot and you'd like to include a link to your dotfiles as an
+inspiration to others, please submit a pull request.
+
+[1]: https://github.com/anishathalye/dotbot
+[2]: https://github.com/anishathalye/dotfiles_template/fork
+[3]: https://github.com/anishathalye/dotfiles