Note: Thanks to venthur for the inspiration.
This repo uses stow to manage the symlinks, but you don't have to -- you can also just individually symlink the contents of each directory directly into your home.
If you want to use stow, clone this repository into ~/.dotfiles and do
cd ~/.dotfiles
stow --restow */stow will automatically symlink the contents of each "package" into the parent
directory from where it is invoked (i.e. your home directory), that's why it is
important to clone this repository directly into your home directory. If you
cloned the repository somewhere else, you can use the --target parameter.
cd ~/path/to/.dotfiles
stow --target=$HOME --restow */