[cross-posting to help-stow] On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Brandon Invergo <[email protected]> wrote: >>> 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/
Hah, cool :-) I took it one step further though, and wrote a Stow plugin for mr. This is linked from the Stow home page: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-stow/2011-12/msg00000.html So mr serves as a unified interface for not only my git-managed configuration files, but any other software I install in my home directory (regardless of which VCS manages it, if any), and also my git-annex repositories which contain all my important data for work and play (photos, videos, music, etc.)
