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That overwrites the remote dotfiles. Any workarounds?

• rzzzt 10mo ago
  GNU Stow? https://systemcrafters.net/managing-your-dotfiles/using-gnu-stow/ https://systemcrafters.net/managing-your-dotfiles/using-gnu-... Keep the alternate sets in different subdirectories.
  • Joker_vD 10mo ago
    It's kinda amusing how much of interesting software there is beyond coreutils and GCC that came from GNU, and how little adoption it has actually seen.
• zeech 10mo ago
  I've found lnk [0] to be a nice tool for this. Similar to GNU Stow as another comment mentioned, but plays a bit nicer with git (and, in my opinion, is nicer to use). Edit: just remembered there was a good comparison of lnk and stow on the HN discussion of lnk from a few months back [1]. [0] https://github.com/yarlson/lnk https://github.com/yarlson/lnk [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44080514 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44080514
• godelski 10mo ago
  :h netrw You can also just place config files anywhere if you know what you then load. That's what I do in my dotfiles, but not exactly like the parent. I also purposefully keep the repo size tiny so it's also just easy to clone. I'd recommend setting a env var so you can always just set that Also don't forget you can have local vim files. I have a function at the end of my vimrc that looks for '.exrc', '.vim.local', '.nvim.local' in the current directory. Helpful for setting project settings.
• sigwinch 10mo ago
  You can set HOME to some temporary path of your choosing. You’ll still need to be a little careful.
• wakawaka28 10mo ago
  If they are in your home dir, does that matter?