site.yml

---
- name: Gathering information on your stuff
  hosts: local
  tasks:
    # This seems to work with Ansible 1.3--the relative directory
    # of localhost is the directory in which the playbook resides.
    - name: only on LOCAL find files
      shell: cd {{dotfiles_src}} && find . -type f | grep -v .git
      register: local_files

    - name: only LOCAL find dirs
      shell: cd {{dotfiles_src}} &&  find . -type d | grep -v .git
      register: local_dirs

- name: Syncing your dotfiles
  hosts: managed
  tasks:
    - name: make the dotfiles directories
      file: path={{ dotfiles_dest }}/{{ item }} state=directory
      with_items: hostvars[groups['local'][0]].local_dirs.stdout_lines

    - name: copy dotfiles
      template: src={{dotfiles_src}}/{{ item }} dest={{dotfiles_dest}}/{{ item }}
      with_items: hostvars[groups['local'][0]].local_files.stdout_lines