Manage Your Dotfiles Like A Superhero
In this fourth episode of the "Build A Portable Development Environment" series we call all of our relevant dotfiles into a common ".dotfiles" folder. By doing so, we are able to version control our configuration using Git! To accomplish this we will use a command line tool called GNU Stow. If this video helped you, or you have any questions / concerns, let me know in the comment section below! ⚡️ 📌 Other videos in the series Build A Portable Development Environment With Nix Package Manager • Build A Portable Development Environment W... Setting Up Zsh And Antibody • Setting Up Zsh And Antibody Neovim - Your First 15 Minutes • Neovim - Your First 15 Minutes ⏰ Timestamps 0:00 Intro 2:49 Create a .dotfiles directory 3:37 How Stow works 8:29 Add configuration files to .dotfiles directory 19:56 Update install script 22:36 Version .dotfiles directory with Git 24:47 Conclusion 📝 Show Notes Notion Template https://jakewiesler.notion.site/Build... GNU Stow https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/ Manage Your Dotfiles Like A Superhero (Blog Post) https://www.jakewiesler.com/blog/mana... My Dotfiles https://github.com/jakewies/.dotfiles 👋 About Me Hey there! I'm Jake. I make YouTube videos about all the cool things I learn in my pursuit to be a better software developer. 🐦 Connect with me on Twitter / jakewies 💌 Subscribe to my Newsletter https://jakewiesler.com/newsletter
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