This repository contains dotfiles which I find most important (would like to have on any unix system I have an account on).
I wrote simple command line tool called dogit for management of dotfile repositories and that is the only way I work with this dotfiles repository.
That said you don't need any tool to make sense of it as format of this repository is quite simple. Working tree of the repo represents a home directory, so no additional file transformations are needed with an exception of removing this README file.