Dotfiles

The problem The first thing you notice when setting up a new machine is that you wish you had an easy way of restoring your highly-customized setup from your previous machine. There are many ways of going about doing this. Maybe you keep a separate repository for each config, use a bare git repo, or the something similar. This can be quite tedious. The solution: gnu stow Using GNU Stow we create symlinks between our dotfiles repository, housing all of our config files, and our home directory. Using a .stow-local-ignore we can ignore certain files or directories that we don’t want to symlink. ...