This is very clever, but I'd have to relearn Make's subtleties each time I tried to debug it or add a feature (count me in the "prefer to avoid it" crowd). I e

This is very clever, but I'd have to relearn Make's subtleties each time I tried to debug it or add a feature (count me in the "prefer to avoid it" crowd). I ended up writing a Go CLI to symlink my dotfiles. It's probably 10x more lines of code, but it uses a "plan, then execute" pattern, similar to Terraform that I find easier to test and clearer to use too. And it's a single binary so it's easy to install on Windows too.