From a49625b433b0d8e0d30383201a9ac403fc49d68a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marcel Kapfer Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2022 16:28:17 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Stow restructuring --- README.md | 17 ++++------------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 9ae362d..5a36208 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,20 +1,11 @@ # dotfiles -My configuration files for various programs. +**My configuration files for various programs.** -## Installing - -To link the files to the correct places run +After using a more-or-less broken script for many years I finally decided to use [GNU/Stow](https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/) instead. A small wrapper script around it helps me now to deploy the files I need. ``` -./install.fish +./stow.sh ``` -Make sure you have [fish](https://fishshell.com) installed. - -## How it works - -The script takes the directories in `dirs.list` and creats them (if they don't -exist). After that it runs over `links.list` and takes the first path as source -(appending ~/dotfiles) and the path after the space as the target (appending -only `~/`). +Additionally to this repositories I keep two other around---one for work and one for personal machines---that contain more sensitive information and are therefore not publicly available.