Soft link or stow for syncing the dotfiles about dotfiles

[alrra]

Hi thx a lot for sharing your config! It is one of the most aesthetically pleasing dotfiles I've come across on GitHub, even the output are formatted well !

@wyq977 Thank you! 🙇‍♂️

I came across stow and I've seen great things about it when comparing it to simply soft linking ln -s.

I didn't know about it so, thank you for bringing it up!

I wonder if you have tried using stow and might switch to it in the future

I've played a little bit with it, and to be honest, I personally don't see much benefit. Plus, I prefer to have more control ^[1] then what stow provides.

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^[1] In a recent version they introduce the following which kind addresses a thing I want, but to me it still seems awkward compared to just using ln.

From https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-stow/2019-06/msg00000.html:

GNU Stow 2.3.0 released

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1 New features / changes in behaviour

1.1 New --dotfiles option

Enable special handling for "dotfiles" (files or folders whose name
begins with a period) in the package directory. If this option is
enabled, Stow will add a preprocessing step for each file or folder
whose name begins with "dot-", and replace the "dot-" prefix in the
name by a period ("."). This is useful when Stow is used to manage
collections of dotfiles, to avoid having a package directory full of
hidden files.

For example, suppose we have a package containing two files,
stow/dot-bashrc and stow/dot-emacs.d/init.el. With this option, Stow
will create symlinks from .bashrc to stow/dot-bashrc and from
.emacs.d/init.el to stow/dot-emacs.d/init.el. Any other files, whose
name does not begin with "dot-", will be processed as usual.