I use stow to manage my configuration files.
Quick setup and basic workflow:
Clone the repository to ~/.dotfiles.
git clone https://github.com/Maaxxs/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles/Then use stow to symlink files and directories of a package (=folder in this repository) to their correct location.
For instance, stow the files for the package editor.
stow editorHow does this work? stow uses the parent directory of this repository
as target directory by default. It then creates symlinks for files and
folders inside the package (e.g. editor) at the corresponding location
relative to the parent directory.
Example:
$ cd ~/.dotfiles
$ tree -a editor
editor
├── .config
│ ├── alacritty
│ │ └── alacritty.yml
│ └── nvim
...
└── .vimrc
Basically, you can replace the word editor above with $HOME as this
is the parent directory of ~/.dotfiles. Hence, symlinks will be
created at these locations.
$HOME
├── .config
│ ├── alacritty
│ │ └── alacritty.yml
│ └── nvim
...
└── .vimrc
A symlink to a directory is created if the directory does not exist, yet. Otherwise a symlink to the file is created.
Delete symlinks with
stow -D editoror restow them (e.g. after adding new files)
stow -R editor