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## Installation
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To install GNU Stow, use your preferred package manager
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### OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
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```zsh
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$ sudo zypper up
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$ sudo zypper in stow
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```
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### Load (symlink) dotfiles
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- <dotfiles> - refers to the name of the directory where the dotfiles git repo lives
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Make sure that <dotfiles> is a subdirectory of `$HOME`
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```zsh
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$ cd ~/<dotfiles> && stow .
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```
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You may need to add the `--adopt` flag to stow to override existing configurations in `$HOME`
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```zsh
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$ cd ~/<dotfiles> && stow --adopt .
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```
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## Usage
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- <dotfiles> - refers to the name of the directory where the dotfiles git repo lives
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- <path> - The directory path where the file/s live
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- <file> - The file's name, this is the file you want to add/update/delete
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### Add
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Add a new file to the dotfiles repo
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```zsh
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$ mv ~/<path>/<file> ~/<dotfiles>/<path>/<file>
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$ cd ~/<dotfiles> && stow .
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```
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### Update
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As GNU Stow uses symlinks, you can simply edit it (in either ~/<path>/<file> or ~/<dotfiles>/<path>/<file>) and the changes will be present in both locations
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### Delete
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Remove a file from GNU Stow and the filesystem
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```zsh
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$ rm ~/<dotfiles>/<path>/<file>
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$ rm ~/<path>/<file>
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```
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Remove a file only from GNU Stow, but keep it in the filesystem
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```zsh
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$ rm ~/<path>/<file>
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$ mv ~/<dotfiles>/<path>/<file> ~/<path>/<file>
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$ cd ~/<dotfiles> && stow .
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```
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### Commit changes to the GitHub repository (optional)
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```zsh
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$ cd ~/<dotfiles>
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$ git add .
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$ git commit -m "Your message here"
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$ git push origin master
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```
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### Pull Changes from the GitHub repository
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```zsh
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$ cd ~/<dotfiles>
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$ git pull origin master
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$ stow -- adopt .
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```
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