Does anyone have experience using GNU Stow for managing dot files? I’m especially interested in using it to build a git repo to include my .vimrc file so I can sync it between hosts.
I know I’ve seen other methods, such as making your home directory a bare git repo, so you can check-in your config files without moving them. There is also the chezmoi golang project.
How do others sync .vimrc between hosts?
Nice! I never knew cp could do that. No more struggling to remember in which order the
lnparameters should be!Worth noting that this is GNU-specific! For macOS for example, you’d have to install GNU userland (e.g. from homebrew) to get the flag. There’s still value in using other solutions (such as
ln), portability-wise.As an aside: I mostly think of the
lnparam orders as exactly the same ascpandmv:cp FROM TO mv FROM TO ln [-s] FROM TOMaybe that could help!