While it may appear that there's an overwhelming amount of documentation and
while the explanation of the concepts behind `vcsh` needs to touch a few gory
-details of `git` internals, getting started with vcsh is extremely simple.
+details of `git` internals, getting started with `vcsh` is extremely simple.
Let's say you want to version control your `vim` configuration:
[vcsh][vcsh] allows you to maintain several git repositories in one single
directory. They all maintain their working trees without clobbering each other
or interfering otherwise. By default, all git repositories maintained via
-`vcsh` are stored in <$HOME> but you can override this setting if you want to.
+`vcsh` are stored in `$HOME` but you can override this setting if you want to.
All that means that you can have one repository per application or application
family, i.e. `zsh`, `vim`, `ssh`, etc. This, in turn, allows you to clone
custom sets of configurations onto different machines or even for different
`vcsh` was designed with [mr][mr] in mind so you might want to install that, as
well.
-Read <INSTALL.md> and <PACKAGING.md> for instructions specific to your operating
+Read `INSTALL.md` and `PACKAGING.md` for instructions specific to your operating
system.
The following overview will try to give you an idea of the use cases and
## Comparison to Other Solutions ##
Most people who decide to put their dotfiles under version control start with a
-single repository in <$HOME>, adding all their dotfiles (and possibly more)
+single repository in `$HOME`, adding all their dotfiles (and possibly more)
to it. This works, of course, but can become a nuisance as soon as you try to
manage more than one host.
The next logical step is to create single-purpose repositories in, for example,
-<~/.dotfiles> and to create symbolic links into <$HOME>. This gives you the
+`~/.dotfiles` and to create symbolic links into `$HOME`. This gives you the
flexibility to check out only certain repositories on different hosts. The
downsides of this approach are the necessary manual steps of cloning and
symlinking the individual repositories.
`vcsh` takes this second approach one step further. It expects
single-purpose repositories and stores them in a hidden directory (similar
-to <~/.dotfiles>). However, it does not create symbolic links in <$HOME>; it
-puts the actual files right into <$HOME>.
+to `~/.dotfiles`). However, it does not create symbolic links in `$HOME`; it
+puts the actual files right into `$HOME`.
Furthermore, by making use of [mr][mr], it makes it very easy to enable/disable
and clone a large number of repositories. The use of `mr` is technically