I haven't switched my distribution since I started using #GnuStow to manage my dotfiles. I installed stow, pulled my repo, and everything worked as expected. I love this setup!
https://lukasrotermund.de/posts/manage-your-dotfiles-using-gnu-stow/
If you’ve ever struggled to manage your dotfiles across different systems, GNU Stow could be the elegant solution you’ve been looking for. In this post, I explain how using Stow to reorganise my dotfiles made my setup cleaner, more modular and easier to reproduce.
I came across GNU Stow as a way of organising dotfiles in an interview between Matt from @thelinuxcast and Linkarzu on YouTube.
If you’ve ever struggled to manage your dotfiles across different systems, GNU Stow could be the elegant solution you’ve been looking for. In my latest post, I explain how using Stow to reorganise my dotfiles made my setup cleaner, more modular and easier to reproduce.
https://lukasrotermund.de/posts/manage-your-dotfiles-using-gnu-stow/
If you’ve ever struggled to manage your dotfiles across different systems, GNU Stow could be the elegant solution you’ve been looking for. In this post, I explain how using Stow to reorganise my dotfiles made my setup cleaner, more modular and easier to reproduce.
Replaced GNU stow by git bare repo as described https://dev.to/bowmanjd/store-home-directory-config-files-dotfiles-in-git-using-bash-zsh-or-powershell-the-bare-repo-approach-35l3
I never learned stow and a simple alias fixed all my needs.
alias dtf='git --git-dir=$HOME/projects/vyskocilm/dotfiles/ --work-tree=$HOME'
Lukas Rotermund
ADMIN magazine
dotfiles to a GNU stow structure. What a brilliant piece of software!
Michal Vyskočil
OSTechNix
