Simple shell script for managing home directory soft links with stow.

Quick start instructions:

% cd ${HOME}
% mkdir .hstow
% cd .hstow
% git clone https://github.com/esorton/hstow.git
% cd ${HOME}
% ./.hstow/hstow/bin/hstow

As hstow is stowed in ${HOME}/bin, full path to script is not required after the initial stow as long as ${HOME}/bin is in the current path.

Checkout additional repositories within ${HOME}/.hstow and/or create additional subdirectories with files to be stowed. Run hstow to create the necessary soft links or to update things change.

List files to ignore in .stow-local-ignore file in root of repository.

stow utility must be installed on the host computer. On Debian based distributions, install with apt-get:

% sudo apt-get install stow

stow source can be obtained at https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/.