https://east.fm/enFri, 26 Oct 2018 22:16:53 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttps://east.fm/posts/dotfiles-reloaded/index.htmlKenneth H. East<div><p>About a year and a half ago, I converted to using <tt class="docutils literal">GNU stow</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">git</tt> for managing my dotfiles. The most recent version of that effort is available <a class="reference external" href="https://bitbucket.org/MaDeuce/dotfiles">here</a>.</p> <p>The scheme worked well but the OCD part of me grew tired of seeing symbolic links to files instead of the actual files themselves. The symlinks weren't unexpected, after all, the whole point of <tt class="docutils literal">stow</tt> is easily managing lots of links. Then I ran across a post on Hacker News about using a bare git repo to manage dotfiles in place. I very much liked the idea and settled on using <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh"><tt class="docutils literal">vcsh</tt></a> and <a class="reference external" href="http://myrepos.branchable.com"><tt class="docutils literal">myrepos</tt></a> to manage my dotfiles going forward.</p> <p>I should mention that I've known about <tt class="docutils literal">vcsh</tt> for a good while. My impression had been that it was more complicated than necessary for my purposes. I've since changed my mind completely; it's as simple as what I ended up doing with <tt class="docutils literal">stow</tt>, if not simpler. Minor tweaks to dotfiles are a pleasure when using <tt class="docutils literal">myrepos</tt>.</p> <p>These are my brief notes about the process.</p> <p><a href="https://east.fm/posts/dotfiles-reloaded/index.html">Read more…</a> (5 min remaining to read)</p></div>dotfilesOS-Xunixhttps://east.fm/posts/dotfiles-reloaded/index.htmlSat, 04 Feb 2017 00:57:14 GMT