We're going straight GNU/Linux up in this repo, so we'll be using stow:
# First clone the repo in the home dir
git clone git@github.com:slint/dotfiles.git "~/.dotfiles"
cd ~/.dotfiles
# Symlink all the dotfiles from the parent dir (i.e. home) to this
# directory.
stow --dotfiles --adopt .
# Diff the changes
git diff
# Apply them
git reset --hard