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this post was submitted on 08 Dec 2024
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Ironically, stowman is a bash script whose only purpose is to wrap git and stow so that you only need a couple of very simple commands in order to manage dotfiles, the automation (i.e. the synchronization task) doesn't seem to be a part of stowman.
Exactly. For now, it's main focus is to only move configs to the dotsdir (since stow throws a conflict when there's already something in place), let stow create the symlink and push it to git.
on a remote mashine, however, you still need to handle conflicts yourself. but it's also mostly intended for fresh installations, or where you don't mind just
rm -rf
the existing config