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+MIT License
+
+Copyright (c) 2017 Dan Head
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+SOFTWARE.
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+# Dan Head's dotfiles
+
+A collection of configuration files for frequently used applications, like 
+[terminal](https://github.com/thestinger/termite), [zsh](http://www.zsh.org/), 
+[Vim](http://www.vim.org/), [i3 (window manager)](https://i3wm.org/) and 
+[Irssi](https://irssi.org/) amongst others.
+
+## Contents
+
+Folder | Description
+--- | ---
+bin | Binary files and scripts
+i3 | i3 config files
+i3blocks | i3blocks config and associated scripts
+irssi | Irssi config and theme
+termite | Termite config file and terminfo file
+vim | vimrc file and colours
+zsh | zsh config file and aliases
+
+## Installation
+I would recommend against cloning and using this repository as it is heavily 
+customised for my use, instead I would fork it and customise to your liking, or 
+simply copy out the bits you want.
+
+My setup consists of either updating applications to reference the config files 
+directly from the repository, or where that is not possible, I use a symlink to 
+the applications default config location.
+
+For example, to configure ZSH:
+```
+git clone git@github.com:danhead/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles
+ln -s ~/.dotfiles/zsh/.zshrc ~/
+```