Stick this in your homedir repo. Run rake. Watch in amazement as it symlinks everything.

homedir.rake

require 'find'

BLACKLIST = %w[
  .git
  .gitignore
  Rakefile
]

task :default do
  Find.find('.') do |path|
    next if path == '.'
    Find.prune if BLACKLIST.include? path.sub(%r{^\./}, '')

    if File.directory? path
      dir = File.expand_path("~/#{path}")
      system "mkdir -p #{dir}"
      next
    elsif File.file? path
      source = File.expand_path("../#{path}", __FILE__)
      target = File.expand_path("~/#{path}")

      system  "ln -sf '#{source}' '#{target}'"
    else
      puts "Don't know how to deal with '#{path}', it's not a dir or file."
    end
  end
end

Does this do the same-ish thing?

$ find . -type d -exec echo "mkdir -p /tmp/{}" ; -or -type f -exec echo "ln -sf /tmp/{}" ; -or -type l -exec echo "ln -sf /tmp/{}" ; -or -exec echo "**** {} not sure" ;

Or, without rake