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+# dotfiles
+
+These are my dotfiles, useful for my own shell configuration and not much else. Installation is easy, just paste this into your terminal.
+
+    #!/bin/sh
+    #Initialization script sourced from Atlassian: https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2016/02/best-way-to-store-dotfiles-git-bare-repo/
+    git clone --bare ssh://git@git.penguincoder.org:2222/penguincoder/dotfiles.git
+    function config {
+      /usr/bin/git --git-dir=$HOME/dotfiles.git/ --work-tree=$HOME $@
+    }
+    mkdir -p .config-backup
+    config checkout
+    if [ $? = 0 ]; then
+      echo "Checked out config.";
+      else
+        echo "Backing up pre-existing dot files.";
+        config checkout 2>&1 | egrep "\s+\." | awk {'print $1'} | xargs -I{} mv {} .config-backup/{}
+    fi;
+    config checkout
+    config config status.showUntrackedFiles no
+    config push --set-upstream origin master
+    config submodule init
+    config submodule update
+    which fc-cache 2>/dev/null && fc-cache -f -v ~/.fonts || true