From 84cf6798770fd74c9f977e9719a4be9a3170454f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Stone <thepeterstone@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:30:52 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] force symlink creation to workaround moved/deleted link
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---
 bin/home-sync | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/bin/home-sync b/bin/home-sync
index aea3f74..5ccd1e6 100755
--- a/bin/home-sync
+++ b/bin/home-sync
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ main() {
 
 backupAndReplace() {
     [ -e $HOME/.$1 ] && mv -f $HOME/.$1 $ROOT/backups/$1
-    ln -s $ROOT/dot-files/$1 $HOME/.$1
+    # this needs to be forced because -e returns false for a dangling symlink
+    ln -sf $ROOT/dot-files/$1 $HOME/.$1
 }
 
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