Hello, I just installed stow to manage my dotfiles. Now I have to manually create the directory structure in the stow directory and move my dotfiles there, and then stow them. I would have very much appreciated if stow could automate this:
~$ export STOW_DIR=~/dotfiles
# create a new package `bash` and let it adopt the given files
~$ stow --create bash .bashrc .bash_profile
# I forgot a file - add it to the existing package
~$ stow --create bash .inputrc
I figured that a partial automation is possible in the current version using --adopt:
~/dotfiles$ mkdir bash
~/dotfiles$ touch bash/.bashrc bash/.bash_profile bash/.inputrc
~/dotfiles$ stow --adopt bash
so maybe this could be mentioned in the docs as a useful tip until (if ever?) --create is implemented.
Hello, I just installed
stowto manage my dotfiles. Now I have to manually create the directory structure in the stow directory and move my dotfiles there, and then stow them. I would have very much appreciated ifstowcould automate this:I figured that a partial automation is possible in the current version using
--adopt:so maybe this could be mentioned in the docs as a useful tip until (if ever?)
--createis implemented.