I liked stow, and used it for quite some time. That being said, it has issues. Issues community members have attempted to solve. Issues the sole maintainer wasn't addressing for quite a few years.

I use chezmoi now. I've still got mixed feelings, but the templating system is neat. Stow seems to have gotten out of it's slump while I was gone. That's good news! Anyone know if they addressed the tree specific folding/unfolding config feature? Not seeing anything in the docs...

[–] ad_on_is@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I tried chezmoi, and wanted to love it... but I just can't. IMHO, it's complicated, which is why I built this one.

[–] Static_Rocket@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yeah, there are a lot of bells and whistles and a fundamental difference between the way they intend to manage dotfiles and the way stow does. Makes it difficult to get started.

One thing that helped me when I was first getting into it: Chezmoi doesn't like compartmentalization like stow. It supports it, but it want's you to lean into the config langue a bit before you start doing that.

If you do that you can get away with only touching the add, cd, and update commands.

[–] ad_on_is@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Exactly... but it still adds some overhead, which I'm honestly not a huge fan of.

At the end of the day, I want a single directory, where I can symlink the files and folders into their appropriate places, and share them across multiple machines, all that, without digging too deep into the tool, especially when I frequently update things, like a neovim config, etc..

And stow, paired with git, does exactly what I need. I only made some "aliases" to simplify the workflow.