From ff3b0b84d162f7674385305c22f611672030feea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sami Samhuri <sami.samhuri@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:21:54 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] added a script to get up and running on a new box (overlaps
 with link-config-files)

---
 newbox | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 newbox

diff --git a/newbox b/newbox
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..6765140
--- /dev/null
+++ b/newbox
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+fail() {
+    echo "error: $@"
+    exit 1
+}
+
+if ! which git >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    if which aptitude >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+        sudo aptitude install git-core
+    elif which brew >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+        brew install git-core
+    else
+        echo "Don't know how to install git on this box. Install git and run this again."
+        exit 1
+    fi
+fi
+
+cd ~
+git clone git://github.com/samsonjs/config || fail "cannot clone config repo"
+
+for FILE in config/*; do
+    pushd "$HOME"
+    DOTFILE=".${FILE##*/}"
+    if [[ -e "$DOTFILE" ]]; then
+        mkdir original-dot-files >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
+        echo "Existing file found at $DOTFILE, moving to ~/original-dot-files."
+        mv "$DOTFILE" original-dot-files/
+    fi
+    ln -s "$FILE" "$DOTFILE"
+    popd
+done