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?
Oh wow - this is incredibly helpful! I have been working on some shell scripts to do this over the last week and just replaced the majority of the script with GNU stow and it is much more elegant in its simplicity. Kind of surprised I have not heard of this tool.
Using https://github.com/Czahrien/shell-config-files if you are curious. I settled on having a main dotfiles folder containing packages that will always be stowed, a platform folder with a name derived from
uname -s -mand a host folder derived from the hostname.