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Re:Managing dotfiles with GNU Stow by jiiam on Sunday April 17, 2016 @02:19PM (#11515565)
Oh god, yes! Finally! I'm sick of hundreds of dotfiles forgotten in remote places of my filesystem, organized via a github repo and deployed with a handcrafted (by a friend) Rakefile.

The only change I'd make is to deploy by copying (and not by symlinking).

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Re:Managing dotfiles with GNU Stow by herebolt on Sunday April 17, 2016 @02:38PM (#11515639)
> The only change I'd make is to deploy by copying (and not by symlinking).

But then you lose any changes you make to those files...

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Re:Managing dotfiles with GNU Stow by nkuttler on Sunday April 17, 2016 @04:53PM (#11516260)
I consider that a feature. When a change has proven to be good enough I copy it into my repository. I prefer to rsync the files though.
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