Currently, I use GNU Stow to manage my dotfiles.

A clone of this repo lives at ~/.dotfiles. Each top-level folder represents one application, and contains any config files that that application requires.

To install (for instance) my dunst configs, I enter ~/.dotfiles and run stow dunst. To uninstall them, I run stow -D dunst from the same place. For more information, see the GNU Stow docs.

There are things this simple system can't handle, like:

• installing configs that don't live under ~
• ensuring that dependencies exist before installing configs that require them
• maintaining slightly divergent versions of configs used by separate machines

If/when I need more power, maybe I'll look into something like

• ChezMoi (found via a HN comment)
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