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I agree with @glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org, all of these are just different ways to skin the cat. Whatever gets the files in the proper directories. Once you pick one (even arbitrarily, to a degree), you'll very likely find no reason to push you toward another solution. I myself use symlinks with GNU cp -s
I've never heard of
cp -faTsbefore. I did some experimenting and was surprised that it was recursive. I thought you needed an-Rfor that, but you don't. So,cp -faRTsappears to do the same thing, but is funnier.In any case, thanks for sharing your repo. I take it, that after the initial install, you can just repeatedly
git pull https://git.sr.ht/~igemnace/vim-configand then runvim-config/scripts/install-cfgto keep your config files up-to-date.Right! Recursive is implied by
-aYep. There's a single
./installscript in project root that callsinstall-cfgandinstall-plugins. I only really need to run it once (first time I set up on a machine), and every time I add a new file. If all I've done is update existing files, a simplegit pullwill update my dotfiles' content automatically, as everything is symlinked already.