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symlinking , a more stow aligned behaviour? #38

@dennybaa

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@dennybaa

Hi @uroybd , thanks for a very neat tool, looks like a very good aid for stow 👍

I have a question if you could provide a few details about symlinking...

  1. I don't really get the symlinking workflow... Why do we need to import something first, shouldn't this be optional? Maybe it's the fact already.

  2. The symlinking behavior is the whole dir linked - this deviates from stow, imo it's not flexible when we'd like to run both git tracked files along with non tracked files

    ❯ ls -la ~/.config/nix
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 dennybaa dennybaa 41 May 26 14:51 /home/dennybaa/.config/nix -> /home/dennybaa/dotfiles/dotr/deployed/nix
    ❯ ls -la /home/dennybaa/.config/nix/nix.conf 
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 dennybaa dennybaa 166 May 26 14:50 /home/dennybaa/.config/nix/nix.conf
    

    Instead my view (I definitely might be missing something though) - that individual files should be linked.

  3. global symlink = true setting seems to be missing.

@uroybd What do you have in mind about the above?

Thank you!

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