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		jiiam on April 17, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Managing dotfiles with GNU Stow 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).

herebolt on April 17, 2016 [–]

> 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...

theepauk on April 17, 2016 | [–]

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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