My current approach to managing dotfiles.

1. Stow

1. Clone dotfiles repository to local machine. (~/.dotfiles)

   git clone [email protected]:alex-thorne/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles

2. Run install.sh to adopt dotfiles from dotfiles repository to user $HOME.

   cd ~/.dotfiles
   chmod +x ./install.sh
   ./install.sh

Stow tree structure (-> indicates created symlink)

/Users/alex
├── .dotfiles
│   ├── vim
│   │   └── .vimrc
├── .vimrc -> .dotfiles/vim/.vimrc

Install script passes --dotfiles stow arg, replacing "dot-..." naming convention. By default stow will not overwrite existing files found with attempted packages to be stowed. Conflicts should be resolved manually via backup/move/delete or --adopt.