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		e40 on Dec 29, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012) I've had my dotfiles in git for 7+ years. Work on Windows, Linux and macOS. Conditionalization in BASH is dead simple. EDIT: 12+ years at work.

sooheon on Dec 29, 2020 [–]

Yeah, it seems like keeping the cond inside the dotfiles, rather than in a dotfiles manager is the way to go.

devy on Dec 29, 2020 | [–]

Can you share some of your setup there to exemplify? Thanks.

e40 on Dec 29, 2020 | | [–]

I use $(uname -s) (Cygwin required on Windows) and dispatch on that. There's really nothing more than that.

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