How to organise and deploy dotfiles using GNU stow.

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?

  • umbraklat@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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    2 years ago

    I’ve never heard of cp -faTs before. I did some experimenting and was surprised that it was recursive. I thought you needed an -R for that, but you don’t. So, cp -faRTs appears to do the same thing, but is funnier.

    In any case, thanks for sharing your repo. I take it, that after the initial install, you can just repeatedly git pull https://git.sr.ht/~igemnace/vim-config and then run vim-config/scripts/install-cfg to keep your config files up-to-date.

    • igemnace@lemmy.sdf.org
      2·
      2 years ago

      Right! Recursive is implied by -a

      Yep. There’s a single ./install script in project root that calls install-cfg and install-plugins. I only really need to run it once (first time I set up on a machine), and every time I add a new file. If all I’ve done is update existing files, a simple git pull will update my dotfiles’ content automatically, as everything is symlinked already.