lnk

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 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44080514

Yes, that’s easy. Here’s a very small example: https://github.com/sshine/nix/blob/main/shared/home-manager.... My servers don’t have that many dotfiles because most server software can be configured in /etc (zsh, vim), while my work computers have a lot of dotfiles symlinked into ~/.config/ via Nix, e.g. VSCodium, ghostty, … Most people prefer to Nix up their dotfiles, which provides some advantages (e.g. universal styling via Stylix), but the main drawback that I’m not buying is: I can’t share my app-specific config with non-Nix users. But if you’re looking for a cheaper (in terms of complexity) dotfiles manager: https://github.com/yarlson/lnk

Move dotfiles to ~/.config/lnk, get symlinks back, use Git normally. Single binary, no config files, no fluff. Built because chezmoi was too complex and plain Git was too manual.