Yes, they are.
I simply wanted to symlink a deeply buried directory. For example, the applications directory resides in .local/share/. I wanted applications to be a symlink, but not its two parents.
In the dotfile directory do:
./symlink
Nothing will be overwritten without permission. You will be asked:
What do you want to do? [s]kip, [S]kip all, [o]verwrite, [O]verwrite all.
On a brand new Ubuntu machine, simply execute install.sh like so:
curl -LsS https://raw.github.com/hdemers/dotfiles/master/install.sh | bash
The install script will install git, clone this repository and run symlink with
overwrite-all and create-paths options.