[lonetwin]

erm, firstly, by silly symlinks I meant in the context of managing dotfiles. A lot of exiting tools do that and IMHO, it is silly. Of course in yours it might make perfect sense. Secondly, erm -- git submodules are nasty and dangerous ? ...for managing vim files ? How am I to use pathogen (or all the hipsters to use oh-my-<whatever>)). I didn't say this is what you use on your production servers. This is how I manage my dotfiles on my personal boxes and find it easier to use than any specific purpose tool.