Using Stow

GnuStow.md

First, install stow. Then, clone your dotfiles repo to ~/dotfiles or similar.

Stow symlinks to the home folder. So if you wanted to stow your nvim config, for example:

1. Make folder ~/dotfiles/nvim/.config
2. Move active config into this folder: mv ~/.config/nvim ~/dotfiles/nvim/.config/nvim
3. cd ~/dotfiles then stow nvim to symlin its contents to ~, ie, right where they should be.

Then if setting up on a new machine, just clone dotfiles and go straight to stow nvim from the dotfiles folder to "pop out" that config into place.