stowman.sh lets you easily manage your dotfiles using git and GNU stow. - ad-on-is/stowman
  • mosiacmango@lemm.ee
    2·
    5 days ago

    As a heads up, your readme has “machine” misspelled as “maschine” in two spots:

    • On your current maschine

    • On another maschine

    Looks like thats the german spelling?

    • ad_on_is@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      Oh right… thx for the hint. It’s indeed German, and I usually write it as machine or mashine, when writing in English. This time I was just unfocused 😅

  • wuphysics87@lemmy.ml
    1·
    5 days ago

    I’m all in favor of tools that automate dotfiles and make system configuration simpler for folks just getting started, but what benefit is there over using bash scripts

    (appologies for no rtfm. Conversation is more fun anyway 🙂)

    • sgh@lemmy.ml
      1·
      5 days ago

      Ironically, stowman is a bash script whose only purpose is to wrap git and stow so that you only need a couple of very simple commands in order to manage dotfiles, the automation (i.e. the synchronization task) doesn’t seem to be a part of stowman.

      • ad_on_is@lemm.eeOPEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        Exactly. For now, it’s main focus is to only move configs to the dotsdir (since stow throws a conflict when there’s already something in place), let stow create the symlink and push it to git.

        on a remote mashine, however, you still need to handle conflicts yourself. but it’s also mostly intended for fresh installations, or where you don’t mind just rm -rf the existing config