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Change bootstrap to use standard stow functions

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Removed the `autostow.sh` scipt. Its use was to call stow for every
folder in base directory and ignore certain folders. Both those
functions can be handled by stow on its own.

Stow allows defining per-directory ignore patterns with
`.stow-loca-ignore` files, which can be set to `.*` to completely ignore
a folder, just as before. And Stow can be called with a glob pattern to
automatically call it for every directory in the repository.

`.stowrc` additionally makes sure that all operations take place
targeting the home directory of the current user, since that is where
the dotfiles will (generally) be stored. Of course, this can be
overridden with the stow command-line options (see option precedence in
stow manual).

Finally, the bootstrap stow module adds an alias `dotlink` to the shell,
which allows fast (re-)stowing of all directories in the dotfile
repository. It uses a hard-coded location for the .dotfiles base
directory, so if the dotfiles are cloned anywhere else this has to be
customized.
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Marty Oehme 2020-02-06 12:08:33 +01:00
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The dotfiles use `GNU stow` to link themselves in the home directory. You can clone this repository anywhere (though I have mine in `~/.dotfiles` as it seemed most logical for me).
Once in the repository directory, when you then run `./install.sh` it will install many of the packages I use (though they are probably slightly out-of-date) and link the dotfiles into the home directory.
Since it is based on `stow`, it will not overwrite anything already in the home directory.
If you do not want to install any packages but only link the dotfiles run `./_bootstrap/autostow.sh -s`, once again from the main repository directory.
Since it is based on `stow`, it will not overwrite anything already in the home directory (though you can force it to if you really want, using `stow --override='.*'` -- I do not recommend this).
If you do not want to install any packages, but only link the dotfiles run `stow -S */` from the main repository directory.
After all files are linked and you open a new shell session, the `dotlink` alias will allow you to re-link all dotfiles from anywhere on the system.[^1]
[^1]: This alias only works when the dotfiles are cloned into `~/.dotfiles` mirroring my setup.
This is due to a hard-coded cd into this directory.
If your dotfiles lie in another directory and you want to use the dotlink alias, simply change the corresponding line in `_bootstrap/.config/sh/alias.d/dotlink.sh`]
Both automatic installation paths are presumably somewhat brittle. In any case, I would suggest to manually look through the files for things you want instead of copying and activating everything.
Dotfiles are too personal to be standardized like that.