Re: [Help-stow] Introducing GNU Guix

[Adam Spiers]

[cross-posting to help-stow]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Brandon Invergo <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> I personally use it to manage my home-directory config files
>>> ("dotfiles") so I can have them all sorted nicely by application and
>>> under version control in one directory and then only stow the ones I
>>> need into their proper places.
>>
>> That's exactly my use case too:
>>
>>     http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-stow/2011-12/msg00000.html
>>
>> It's the reason I took over maintainership after Stow had become
>> stagnant and not made a public release for many years.
>
> Ahhhh so *you're* the one I stole the idea from. I somehow stumbled
> across that email once, and my brain the idea filed it away for future
> use, but I couldn't find the email again. I think we have slightly
> different methods, though:
> http://brandon.invergo.net/blog/2012/05/26/using-gnu-stow-to-manage-your-dotfiles/

Hah, cool :-)

I took it one step further though, and wrote a Stow plugin for mr.
This is linked from the Stow home page:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-stow/2011-12/msg00000.html

So mr serves as a unified interface for not only my git-managed
configuration files, but any other software I install in my home
directory (regardless of which VCS manages it, if any), and also my
git-annex repositories which contain all my important data for work
and play (photos, videos, music, etc.)