FAQ

/dev/fd/62: No such file or directory

On FreeBSD you might see these kinds of errors, see #124 for more details. In essence bash requires fdescfs to be mounted on /dev/fd (at least in FreeBSD 10.0).
sudo mount -t fdescfs fdesc /dev/fd will fix the error until the machine is rebooted (add it to the fstab to make the change permanent).

Directory structure of repos

In order for Homeshick to function properly when calling homeshick clone <repo> you must have a home folder containing all of your dot files that you wish to link. Omission of this folder will cause a ignored <repo> message to be displayed during cloning and homeshick link <repo>