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How does this project compare to other solutions?

• stow
  • This project natively includes instead of linking which allows for machine-specific config (e.g. ~/.bashrc is machine-specific, but sources ~/.config/dmtucker/bashrc.bash which is not).
    • That's because of its ability to run any custom logic (i.e. it can be "smarter" than stow).
• chezmoi
  • The dependencies of this project (e.g. bash, wget, tar, etc.) are far more ubiquitous than chezmoi.

Maybe these comparisons belong in a wiki page?

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• git

  • <disi> reading a couple articles on GNU stow, i've seen comments like "it's not really a good idea to make your whole home directory a git repo"... why is that?
    <ikke> it takes one command to nuke all contents that are not tracked
    <ikke> secondly, git treats ignored files as trashable
    <ikke> merge conflicts can cause files to get (temporarily) corrupt
    

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• yadm
• homeschick
• vcsh

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https://dotfiles.github.io/utilities/