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 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.ee 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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