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The repository is managed by GNU Stow

Each set of configuration files is stowed in its own directory and sub-directories. To "install" the configuration files use

stow --dotfiles <directory name> -t <target directory>

If the target directory is the repository's parent directory this flag can be omitted. The --dotfiles flag applies a special handling for filenames beginning with a period to ease the handling of hidden files. Utilising this flag enables to substitute the leading period of a hidden file to "dot-" within the repository, e.g. applying

stow --dotfiles bash

on the direcory

bash
├── dot-bashrc
└── dot-inputrc

creates the two symlinks ".bashrc" and ".inputrc" to the repository's parent directory.

Unfortunately, as of time writing there is a bug in stow's --dotfiles handling for directories. Hence, hidden directories at the moment have to keep their leading period.