My dotfiles

Instructions

In order to manage my collected dotfiles in git, I use GNU Stow.

stow creates symlinks in order to make the dotfiles available in the target directory.

Convenience Makefile targets are provided for stowing and unstowing all dotfiles at once:

# create symlinks for all dotfiles in $HOME directory
make

# delete symlinks for all managed dotfiles
make unstow


# direct stow commands

# stow git dotfile, attention use --target option, otherwise stow uses the parent directory as default
stow --verbose --target=${HOME} git

# delete single symlink
stow --verbose --target=${HOME} --delete git

This blog post about GNU Stow tutorial gives more insights about the details.