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Re: Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles

#71

Post by dragonfax » Fri, Sep 06, 2013, 12:57 AM UTC

Back to the old "dotfiles with git Best Practices".

My favorite is just to alias it all to a different name.

    alias dg='git --git-dir=/Users/dragonfax/.dotfiles --work-tree=/Users/dragonfax'

now regular git doesn't overlap with my dotfiles git, and I never have to worry about mis-executing the wrong git

Re: Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles

#72

Post by SEJeff » Fri, Sep 06, 2013, 4:20 AM UTC

antihero wrote: post #61

replax wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

uAs I ubderstood, systemd only uses symlinks. Any time you enable a service, systemd executes ln -s ..systemd.. ...service ...

Yeah but the services systemd links to cannot be symlinks.

On Fedora 18 it most certainly can. I did it yesterday with some service files under /usr/lib/systemd/system for some service files I created

Re: Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles

#73

Post by antihero » Fri, Sep 06, 2013, 10:20 AM UTC

SEJeff wrote: post #72

antihero wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah but the services systemd links to cannot be symlinks.

On Fedora 18 it most certainly can. I did it yesterday with some service files under /usr/lib/systemd/system for some service files I created

Neat! Perhaps it's been updated then.