>> I personally use it to manage my home-directory config files
>> ("dotfiles") so I can have them all sorted nicely by application and
>> under version control in one directory and then only stow the ones I
>> need into their proper places.
>
> That's exactly my use case too:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-stow/2011-12/msg00000.html
>
> It's the reason I took over maintainership after Stow had become
> stagnant and not made a public release for many years.
Ahhhh so *you're* the one I stole the idea from. I somehow stumbled
across that email once, and my brain the idea filed it away for future
use, but I couldn't find the email again. I think we have slightly
different methods, though:
http://brandon.invergo.net/blog/2012/05/26/using-gnu-stow-to-manage-your-dotfiles/
-brandon
