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Re:Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012) by coldtea on Monday December 28, 2020 @07:32PM (#25565121)
>Call me old fashioned but what's wrong with having a regular git repo anywhere you want with all of your dotfiles and them symlink those files to where they need to go?

Well, that's what you end up with. Stow just automates the "symlink those files part".

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Re:Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012) by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @03:44AM (#25567931)
More importantly, Stow can intelligently convert a symlinked directory into a real one when a second package wants to share it.
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