Re: [Stow-devel] Special processing for dotfiles

[Adam Spiers]

Hi Joris,

On 23 Apr 2016 09:34, "Joris Vankerschaver" <address@hidden>
wrote:
> I use Stow to manage my dotfiles, but I found it somewhat confusing to
> maintain stow directories full of hidden files.
>
> To work around this, I added an option "--dotfiles" to my stow
> installation. When this is enabled, file or directory names that start with
> "dot-" will be linked to a hidden file with "dot-" replaced by "." (e.g.
> bash/dot-bashrc => .bashrc, emacs/dot-emacs/init.el => .emacs/init.el, etc).
>
> Is this something that would be of interest for the main branch? I added
> my (very rough) implementation as a patch to this email, but I can make a
> PR. There are some structural limitations that I'd need to figure out (e.g.
> this kind of path rewriting doesn't work well with unfolding).

Interesting idea, and I can see the appeal of this.  Yes a PR would be
welcome, and don't feel it has to be perfect before submitting; we can
easily treat it as a draft until it's ready.

> Last, thanks for writing and maintaining Stow. The package perfectly fits
> my use case, and the code is super clean. I've never written any Perl
> before but I found the code base to be very understandable and
> self-explanatory.

Thanks a lot! :-)
Adam