Managing dotfiles with GNU Stow
Dotfiles
- Configurations for editors, tools, etc
- Plain text files
- Usually present in home directory
Why manage dotfiles?
- Have the same configurations across all computers
- Use Version control to keep dotfiles in sync
- Share and try other's configurations
Ways to manage dotfiles
- Copy dotfiles into a git repository
- Using script to copy or link
- Stow - organized and easy way
GNU Stow
- "Symlink farm manager"
- Creates symlinks at different locations that point to files in a directory
- Widely used to manage dotfiles