First, many, many thanks to every other dotfile repository I've ever gawped at amazement at.
These dotfiles are currently managed using GNU
Stow, using a system similar to that
described by Brandon
Invergo.
One minor gotcha to note is that, by default, stow targets the parent
directory of the stowed files. That default works if you have a "dotfiles"
directory in your home directory. I store my dotfiles a little deeper into my
directory structure, and in multiple places, so I scatter .stowrc files in
several directories. For example, my home directory has this default:
--target=/home/danny
--dir=/home/danny/Public/dotfiles
Which points to these public dotfiles -- but I have other directories that store localpackages in ~/.local/ , etc. They have different .stowrc's in them, which override my global default when I'm using stow in those directories.
I'm gradually moving from using Stow to managing my dotfiles (and more) with Guix's Home Services. I'm trying to make sure that this configuration works with both for the time being, but at some point I may switch over completely. Raise an issue if you see something that is broken on Stow!
The command to set up home servies is:
guix home reconfigure guix-home.scm