Managing Dotfiles with GNU Stow (2016)

As you can imagine, manually linking dotfiles quickly becomes laborious and error-prone. GNU stow ????. GNU stow, or just stow, is a symbolic link manager. GNU Stow is a symlink farm manager which takes distinct packages of software and/or data located in separate directories on the filesystem, and makes them appear to be installed in the same place. Dotfiles directory at ~/.dotfiles means using stow to manage our dotfiles just works. Running stow foo inside the dotfiles folder will then create a symbolic link at ~/.config/foo/somefile, creating any intermediate directories that don't already exist. Wrapping up ????. Stow is a neat way to manage a dotfiles folder. If you need a more concrete example of using stow, you can check out my dotfiles repository on GitHub.