These are some of my .files

Files in the root of the directory are symbolically linked to corresponding files in ~/

Note, to symbolically link a file, you must do ln -s ~/Documents/dotfiles/.file ~/.file, i.e., the paths must be absolute paths (use of the ~ shortcut is OK). See http://superuser.com/questions/302312/how-to-properly-store-dotfiles-in-a-centralized-git-repository.

Files in other/ are for various other things.

Linking

First, you have to install Anaconda, and Fink, and git (to even get this in the first place).

Run

./linkfiles.py

and then

./gitclones.sh

For Linux, some files that go in the root directory (/) are in root/. They aren't linked automatically yet.