and they forgot the salt! again! arrrrrgh.

That's easily remedied with the little salt packets.

Too much salt on the other hand...

I've had good luck with these [1] - just copying music files back and forth over USB.

[1] http://amzn.to/1VWMwUe

> The only change I'd make is to deploy by copying (and not by symlinking).

But then you lose any changes you make to those files...

I consider that a feature. When a change has proven to be good enough I copy it into my repository. I prefer to rsync the files though.

I like to use rcm[1] for this.

Works very well for keeping my configuration synced between multiple machines (via git).

[1] https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm