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		coldtea on Dec 29, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012) >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".

kevin_thibedeau on Dec 29, 2020 | [–]

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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