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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).
 
+I would recommend doing a `git clone --recursive` for this repository, since it contains git [submodules](https://nering.dev/2016/git-submodules-vs-subtrees/), which will then automatically get pulled in as well. Of course, you can do it non-recursively and then just pull those modules selectively which you actually want.
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 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when you then run `./install.sh` it will install many of the packages I use (though they are probably slightly out-of-date) and link the dotfiles into the home directory.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 (though you can force it to if you really want, using `stow --override='.*'` -- I do not recommend this).