Re:Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012)
by ironmagma on Monday December 28, 2020 @07:37PM
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Not when you are looking for a workflow to make dealing with dotfiles faster and more painless. With the current (symlink based) setup, there is a hidden state you must hold in your head or else carefully inspect: the discrepancy between your git repo and your home directory. Maybe you forgot to link a dotfile, and that’s why your latest configuration doesn’t work. Ditto for unlinking a dotfile.
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Re:Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012)
by Galanwe on Monday December 28, 2020 @08:32PM
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Isn't that what -D, -S, and more simply -R do?
I did not use stow 2.x, but my understanding is that running stow -R will allow you to remove previous dangling symlinks (during the unstow) and add missing symlinks (during the restow). Effectively allowing you to only manage a single state: your git repository.
Re:Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012)
by kelnos on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @03:59AM
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I delete dotfiles so infrequently (once a year?) that this just isn't a problem for me.
I also don't have all dotfiles under version control, just the ones I've essentially "built myself", so maybe that makes it easier.